As part of their public outreach, several of the APSA Task Forces are developing web resources on their particular area of focus. Click on the task force name below to view available resources. As the work of each task force progresses, additional resources will be added to this list.

• Task Force on Political Violence and Terrorism - to assess the contribution of political science to our understanding of how trends in civil violence, including the ways in which states respond to and/or instigate violence, affect domestic and international political order.
  

  The APSA Task Force on Political Violence and Terrorism has recently compiled a bibliography of political science resources on the study of political violence and terrorism and a set of syllabi for model courses (and units within courses) on political violence and terrorism for secondary school and college levels. Follow the links below to these resources and information on how these resources were compiled: A Bibliography of Political Science Resources on the Study of Political Violence   Statement on Sources    All Syllabi    Exemplary Syllabi

         
• Task Force on Difference and Inequality in the Developing World - to  assemble what political science knows about key global problems and find ways and means by which our scholarship might influence public opinion, shape discourse in the public sphere, and influence policy makers.
  
  
• Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy - to share what political scientists know know about the ways in which recent trends in inequalities impact democratic participation and governance in the United States. The task force will also consider how changing patterns of participation and policy may influence inequality along various dimensions.   
  
  
• Task Force on Graduate Education - to report on promising practices, important issues, and suggestions for innovations in the state of graduate education. 
  
  
• Task Force on Mentoring - to foster efforts to mentor younger political scientists, both graduate students and younger faculty.

APSA TASK FORCES
The purpose of APSA task forces is to expand the public presence of the discipline of political science.  They do so mainly by (1) putting the best of political science research and knowledge at the service of critical issues that have major public policy implications and (2) sharing with broader society what political scientists know about important trends and issues in areas of public concern.