Is Graduate School Worth It? Harassment and Graduate-Student Satisfaction in Political Science.

This article investigates the dynamics of discrimination in political science PhD programs with a survey of current political science graduate students in the top 50 departments. The study focuses on mentorship, funding, sexual harassment, racism, homophobia, and labor exploitation: 20% of responden...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:PS: Political Science & Politics Vol. 56; no. 3; pp. 411 - 417
Autores principales: El Kurd, Dana, Hummel, Calla
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Cambridge University Press Jul2023
Materias:
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=164277099&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: ssf
    uiTerm: 164277099
    longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        10490965
        PSP
      jtl: PS: Political Science & Politics
      issn: 10490965
      maglogo: N
    pubinfo:
      dt: Jul2023
      vid: 56
      iid: 3
      pid: 15979
      pub: Cambridge University Press
    artinfo:
      ui:
        164277099
        10.1017/S1049096523000094
      ppf: 411
      ppct: 6
      formats:
      tig:
        atl: Is Graduate School Worth It? Harassment and Graduate-Student Satisfaction in Political Science.
      aug:
        au:
          El Kurd, Dana
          Hummel, Calla
        affil:
          University of Richmond, USA
          University of Miami, USA
      su:
        Discrimination (Sociology)
        Political science
        Doctor of philosophy degree
      sug:
        subj:
          Discrimination (Sociology)
          Political science
          Doctor of philosophy degree
      ab: This article investigates the dynamics of discrimination in political science PhD programs with a survey of current political science graduate students in the top 50 departments. The study focuses on mentorship, funding, sexual harassment, racism, homophobia, and labor exploitation: 20% of respondents reported labor exploitation, 19% experienced racial discrimination, 9% reported sexual harassment, and 6% experienced homophobia. Discrimination is uneven across individuals; some groups of graduate students experience widespread discrimination, especially racial discrimination, whereas other groups are largely unaware of these issues. We conducted a survey experiment to gauge the impact of misconduct on formal reporting mechanisms and find that hearing about racial discrimination has a chilling effect on reporting. We find that experiencing discrimination harms how satisfied students are in their program. We find that factors linked to student vulnerability, such as international status and funding, are significantly associated with harassment and that reporting discrimination predicts more discrimination.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype: Article
      src: R
    language: English
    refInfo:
    copyright:
      @attributes:
        flag: N
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N