October Table of Contents

Symposia
Gender, Race, and the 2008 Presidential Election
Georgia Duerst-Lahti, editor

Election Forecasting
James Campbell, editor

Features
The 2006 New Orleans Mayoral Election: The Political Ramifications of a Large-Scale Natural Disaster.
James Vanderleeuw and Baodong Liu

Income, Preferences, and the Dynamics of Policy Responsiveness
Joseph Daniel Ura and Christopher R. Ellis

Indoctrination U.? Faculty Ideology and Changes in Student Political Orientation
Mack D. Mariani and Gordon J. Hewitt

The Veepstakes: Forecasting Vice Presidential Selection in 2008
Jody C. Baumgartner

The Profession
A Primer on Applying to the Liberal Arts College
James E. Hanley

Trial by Fire: Surviving the Job Talk Q&A
Ron Hassner

Struggling to be Noticed: The Civil Rights Movement as an Academic Agenda Setter
Harwood K. McClerking and Tasha Philpot

“Written, Published . . . Cross-indexed, and Footnoted”: Plotting the Production of Scholarship on Black Women’s and Gender Studies in Political Science
Nikol Alexander-Floyd

Courting Success: The Supreme Court Fellows Program at 35
Jon B. Gould, Lauren C. Bell, Terence J. Lau, and John M. Domurad

Open Research Questions on Information and Technology in Global and Domestic Politics—Beyond "E-"
Micah Altman and Ken Rogerson

The Teacher
All-Knowing or All-Nurturing? Student Expectations, Gender Roles, and Practical Suggestions for Women in the Classroom
Michelle Dion

Empathy, Prejudice, and Fostering Tolerance
Kristen Renwick Monroe

Learning to Learn; Learning to Win: How to Succeed in the Simulated World of Model NATO
Andrey Meleshevich and Howard Tamashiro

Bottom Up Comparative Politics: Game Theory Abroad
Ruth Lane