January 2009 Table of Contents

Symposium: Reforming the Presidential Nominations Process
Caroline Tolbert and Peverill Squire, editors

Symposium: Voter Identification
Richard Sobel, editor

Features
Measuring Governance and Corruption through the Worldwide Governance Indicators: Critiques, Responses, and Ongoing Scholarly Discussion
Carmen Rocio Apaza

The Content of Political Participation: Letters to the Editor and the People Who Write Them
Christopher Cooper, H. Gibbs Knotts, and Moshe Haspel

Gladiator, Violence, and the Founding of a Republic
Lasse Thomassen

The Profession
Preparing to Fight the Good Fight: Advice from Two Associate Deans to Faculty Friends
Amy Fried and Cyrus E. Zirakzadeh

The Book Award Reward
Patricia Weitsman

Mainstreaming Human Rights: Publishing Trends in Political Science
Sonia Cardenas

The Teacher
Creating Political Order: Maintaining Student Engagement through Reacting to the Past
Tracy Lightcap

Teaching Wisdom to Interest: Book Five of Plato's Republic
Timothy Lukes and Mary F. Scudder

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching International Law: Using the Tools of the Law School Classroom in Political Science
Dana Zartner Falstrom

Bulls, Goats, and Pedagogy: Engaging Students in Overseas Development Aid
William FS Miles