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There's one other thing that you mentioned to me before the camera started to roll.
One other way in which the publication process has been changed.
>> Yeah. >> You mentioned that in
political science blogging is a big thing.
>> Yeah.
Could you explain that a little bit?
>> Yeah there's, there's there's various obviously there's various strategies where
you can, you can disseminate your research findings to, to a public.
It also depends on who your public is.
Mostly research stays confined to academic peer
reviewed journals that have very extensive fees.
>> Mm-hm.
>> Libraries usually have have a subscription obviously, but if you want to
buy a single article as a outsider, you would pay 20 to $30, for one article.
>> Yeah but maybe four pages.
>> I don't know anyone who does that by the way.
I've never actually.
>> I know one person actually, [LAUGH] yes.
>> Yeah, yeah.
I've never actually heard of that but
[LAUGH]
>> Who had access to the paper through his university.
But he didn't know.
No- >> He didn't know, and then yeah.
>> Yeah [LAUGH].
>> It's yeah, it, it incredibly expensive for just one piece of piece of research.
People don't do it.
But what's of course very troubling about that practice,
is that a lot of the research that we do is
simply not disseminated to policy makers and the public at large.
And this can be, this is just not about impacting,
impacting the world however you want to call it.
>> Yeah.
>> You know, or having, having an impact on actual politics and
informing policy makers.
Which are lofty goals.
I think you should do that, but to, to actually
justify why you're doing all that research it is most of it again is public funding.
You have to justify why you do it, and so
blogging about political science research in, in the U.S has become quite big.
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They started you know, very quietly but in the 2010 elections they
got a lot of exposure, and by now they've been taken over by the Washington Post.
>> And they've been you know, and, but part of the reason why they do it
is obviously because, there's a lot of nonsense in mainstream media and
punditry about elections, about voters.
And it's just so unfortunate that all the insights that we've accumulated
over decades, [CROSSTALK] decades of survey research is not accessible.
So we, I think, I think as a discipline blogging is
a nice complement to things like traditional opinion pieces,
or it's also a way to publish your results early.
>> Mm.
>> To to see whether whether it makes any sense what you've been doing or not.
Temporary findings.
>> You get immediate feedback.
>> You get immediate feedback.
Of course there is a danger in that as well,
because it hasn't gone through peer review.
>> Right >> It might be plain wrong, what you did.
>> Yeah.
>> Journals might say you've already published it.
We don't want any more. >> Could be.
Yeah, yeah.
I haven't had that, I mean,
that's, that's interesting, because it could be that it's not original anymore.
>> Yeah.
>> So I mean th, there are some there are some things to think about.
>> You, you might be self plagiarizing [LAUGH] and you're not aware of it.
>> Well yeah exactly you've already published it.
Yeah I know it's it's true but I think it's a way to reach a broader audience.
It's a way to maintain your author, your autonomy.
>> Mm-hm.
>> And to justify what you're doing because if a discipline,
an academic discipline, the worst thing that can happen is that people ignore you.
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It's not even that they criticize you,
the worst thing that can happen is that they completely ignore you.
>> Right. >> And then, you don't have a a reason to,
to, to exist, to get funding, to get all that sort of stuff.
>> To spend all the money.
>> Spend all the money.
I mean, you have to make yourself relevant.
You have to show that what you're doing is relevant.
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Also because the publication process can take years and years.
>> Yeah. >> I mean,
lets not forget that it's not about submitting something to
a particular journal, and then next week it's online and-
>> There you go. >> It can take years.
>> Yeah.
>> Even once it's accepted it can take quite a long time,
before it's actually published.
>> Yeah.
>> So yeah I mean an, a,
a people are using >> Yeah.
>> Blogs more and more.
>> Okay. Well I
think that's a good positive note to to to end on.
>> Yap. >> So, wonderful to hear that even though
the urgency is not as high in political sciences all these changes are being made.
Thank you for sharing with us and thank you for being here.
>> Thanks for having me.
>> Sure.
Annemarie Zand ScholtenAssistant Professor
