July 2008 Table of Contents

Symposium—Institutional Review Boards
Editor's Introduction
Robert J.P. Hauck

Human Subjects Protection and Large-N Research: When Exempt is Non-Exempt and Research is Non-Research
Mitchell A. Seligson

Reforming Institutional Review Board Policy: Issues in Implementation and Field Research
Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea

Research Ethics Governance and Political Science in Canada
Tony Porter

Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Aligning IRBs and Research Practice
Felice J. Levine and Paula R. Skedsvold

A Collision of Noble Goals: Protecting Human Subjects, Improving Health Care, and a Research Agenda for Political Science
Sue Tolleson-Rinehart

Features
Debates are for Losers
Peter Schrott and David Lanoue

The Real (Lack of) Difference between Republicans and Democrats: A Computer Word Score Analysis of Party Platforms, 1996–2004
Quentin Kidd

Gaming Arizona: Public Money and Shifting Candidate Strategies
Michael Miller

The Colbert Bump in Campaign Donations: More Truthful than Truthy
James Fowler

Information They Can Trust: Increasing Youth Turnout at the University
Cynthia Bogard, Ian Sheinheit, and Reneé Clarke

Using the Internet to Create Research Opportunities: The New Virtual Communities of TESS and the American National Election Studies
Kenyatha Vauthier Loftis and Arthur Lupia

On Europe's Representation: A Symbolic Interpretation of Rejecting the Constitution
Natascha Zowislo-Grünewald

Two Houses: Legislative Studies and the Atlantic Divide
Shane Martin

The Profession
Are the Nation's Leading Political Science Programs Practicing the Egalitarian Values Espoused in American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality, and If Not, How Can They?
Kenneth Oldfield

Getting a Job at a Teaching Institution—and Then Succeeding! A Q&A with Experienced Teacher-Scholars
Lanethea Mathews-Gardner, Michelle D Deardorff, Grant Reeher, William Hudson, MaryAnne Borrelli, and Glen Halva-Neubauer

The Equalizing Effect of the Internet on Access to Research Expertise in Political Science and Economics
Daniel Butler, Richard J. Butler, and Jesse Rich

The Teacher
Adventures in Podcasting
Matthew Roberts

Doing Good and Doing Well: Teaching Research-Paper Writing by Unpacking the Paper
Lisa Baglione

Teaching with Lecture or Debate? Testing the Effectiveness of Traditional versus Active Learning Methods of Instruction
Mariya Omelicheva and Olga A. Avdeyeva

Political Science and Classroom Assessment Techniques: Participation as Assessment
Melvin Cohen