Reflections on Political Internships
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12380906 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronald D Hedlund (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 01 |
| Pages | 19-25 |
| Publication date | 1973-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PS Political Science & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-0965 • E-ISSN: 1537-5935 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1049096500000056 |
| OpenAlex | W2017990654 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
Despite widespread and growing interest among students and faculty in using practical political involvement as an adjunct to formal classroom teaching, professional academic literature offers little guidance regarding such programs. As Professors Hirschfield and Adler point out, political science literature has largely ignored questions regarding the scope, structure and strategies of internship programs. Anyone concerned with how students respond in these settings or with what can be done to maximize student learning during internships would find little assistance in the journals, books and monographs of political science. Indeed, no central source even has access to the number of national, state and local political internship programs sponsored by institutions of higher education, public or private agencies, and professional organizations. Consequently, communication regarding internships is fragmented and haphazard. Interested persons must rely on informal channels of communication ( e.g. , correspondence, mimeographed evaluations and reports circulated among program directors), infrequent conferences ( e.g. , the 1971 Kentucky Conference on Students in Government and the 1972 APSA Conference on Political Science and State and Local Government), and prior experience with other internship programs (45 per cent of the past academic participants in the APSA Congressional Fellowship Program reported some type of subsequent involvement in other internships, with 91 per cent of these indicating that this later involvement was administrative or advisory). Such a communications network is hardly an adequate substitute for systematic exchange and rigorous analysis. The anomaly in this state of affairs is that any exchange of information and sharing of experiences has taken place. Hopefully, these two reports in PS , the scheduled publication of a book, Government Management Internships and Executive Development , and a new journal, Teaching Political Science , plus the formation of a center for disseminating internship information, the National Center for Public Service Internship Programs with their “Public Service Internship Newsletter,” Indicate a new stage in the evolution of political science concern with internships
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2018 (40) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |