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The below articles and interviews showcase public scholarship by political scientists – examples of experts engaging with broad audiences through local and national media outlets.

The views expressed in the posts and articles featured are those of the authors and contributors alone and do not represent the views of APSA.

Interviews and articles featuring political scientists

• The Presidential Transition Process and the 2020 Election, C-SPAN interview featuring Karen Hult (Virginia Tech University)


• How Important Is An Efficient, Peaceful Presidential Transition? , Texas Public Radio interview with Professor Martha Kumar (Townsend University), director of the White House Transition Project 


• Harris Has the Potential to Change the Face of US Politics, Politico article featuring Keneshia Grant (Howard University), Jennifer Lawless (University of Virginia), Amanda Clayton (Vanderbilt University)

Analysis and research briefs by political scientists

• The US Election is Over, What did International Observers Think?, Sharon Austin (University of Florida), The Washington Post

• So-called "Latino vote" is 32 million Americans with diverse political opinions and national origins, Lisa Garcia Bedolla (The University of California Berkeley), The Conversation

• COVID-19 Policy and Black Communities Roundup, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
• Here are six big takeaways from the 2020 election, Chris Warshaw (George Washington University) and Emily Thorson (Syracuse University), The Washington Post 

Op-eds by political scientists 

• Roundup of #WeKnowVoting Op-Eds from local media outlets, the Election Assistance Task Force

• This is Not Just a Victory for Kamala Harris, Melanye Price (Prairie View A&M University), The New York Times

• End Minority Rule, Steven Levitsky (Harvard) and Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard), The New York Times

• The 2020 Election Meltdown That Didn't Happen, Even Amid the Covid Pandemic, Nathaniel Persily (Stanford) and Charles Stewart III (MIT), The Wall Street Journal

• The 2020 Election Did Not Kill Identity Politics, Khalilah L. Brown-Dean (Quinnipiac University), The Los Angeles Times

• Our Political System is Unfair. Liberals Need to Just Deal With It. Steven Teles (Johns Hopkins University), The New York Times

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