MPSA selects two U-M Political Science Ph.D. Alumni as the Incoming Editorial Team for the American Journal of Political Science!
Congratulations to Adam Berinsky (Ph.D. 2000) and Dan Reiter (Ph.D. 1994) for being selected to be the incoming Co-Editors-in-Chief for the American Journal of Political Science!
Adam Berinsky is a leading scholar of American politics and political behavior. His many areas of interest include the political consequences of misinformation, dynamics of public support during wartime, psychological dynamics of political behavior, survey methodology, and many others, using statistical, experimental, and other methods. His many scholarly awards include the 2013 Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research, given annually for outstanding work on public opinion or survey methodology. Berinsky has extensive experience in editing, including having served since 2013 as the editor of the Chicago Studies in American Politics at the University of Chicago Press.
Dan Reiter is a leading scholar of international relations. He has published on a wide array of topics, especially domestic politics and war, alliances, terrorism, nuclear weapons, gender and international relations, military strategy, and many others, using statistical, experimental, case study, and formal methods. His scholarly awards include the 2002 Deutsch Award, given to the leading scholar of international relations under the age of 40 or within ten years of having received the Ph.D. He received the 2010 APSA Conflict Processes Award for How Wars End (Princeton, 2009), given to the best book on conflict processes published in the previous two years. Reiter has extensive experience in editing, including having served as associate editor for AJPS since 2020.
The American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) is committed to significant advances in knowledge and understanding of citizenship, governance, and politics, and to the public value of political science research. The AJPS is the flagship journal of the Midwest Political Science Association and is published by Wiley.
The Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) is the home of the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS), one of the top-ranked academic journals in the discipline, the MPSA was founded in 1939 and is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all areas of political science. The purposes of the MPSA are to promote the professional study and teaching of political science, to facilitate communications between those engaged in such study, and to develop standards for and encourage research in theoretical and practical political problems. As such, MPSA is a nonpartisan association. It does not support political parties or candidates.