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Teaching Political Engagement and Research Methods through Community-Based Research
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Teaching Political Engagement and Research
Methods through Community-Based Research
Corey Cook
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
San Francisco State University
## email not listed ##
Francis K. Neely
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, California 94132
Abstract:
As junior political science faculty members, we continually seek opportunities to merge our teaching interests with our research agendas and service to the community. We were presented with a rare opportunity to make this connection in the fall of 2004. Due to the passage of a charter amendment in 2002, San Francisco became the first city in a generation to employ Instant Runoff Voting (aka Ranked-Choice Voting, aka Alternative Vote) in a municipal election. Prior to its adoption, a contentious debate emerged in the city concerning the effect of this reform on potential voters in a diverse metropolis with high numbers of English language learners and a wide range of education levels and political sophistication among prospective voters. We received a contract with the City and County of San Francisco to implement a massive exit survey of polling place and absentee voters designed to discern how well voters adapt to a change in voting systems and to discover whether different groups of voters had fundamentally different experiences in utilizing a voting system with which they had no prior experience. To carry out this ambitious research project, we engaged over one hundred undergraduate students in two separate courses in November 2004, and one hundred students in three courses in November 2005. In addition to producing scholarly research and serving the community by supplying the city with a program evaluation, we had two primary pedagogical objectives: using a community-based research project to teach survey research methods and encourage political engagement among our students.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference,
Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC, 2006
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Teaching Political Engagement and Research
Methods through Community-Based Research
Corey Cook
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
San Francisco State University
## email not listed ##
Francis K. Neely
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, California 94132
Abstract:
As junior political science faculty members, we continually seek opportunities to merge our teaching
interests with our research agendas and service to the community. We were presented with a rare
opportunity to make this connection in the fall of 2004. Due to the passage of a charter amendment in
2002, San Francisco became the first city in a generation to employ Instant Runoff Voting (aka
Ranked-Choice Voting, aka Alternative Vote) in a municipal election. Prior to its adoption, a
contentious debate emerged in the city concerning the effect of this reform on potential voters in a
diverse metropolis with high numbers of English language learners and a wide range of education
levels and political sophistication among prospective voters. We received a contract with the City and
County of San Francisco to implement a massive exit survey of polling place and absentee voters
designed to discern how well voters adapt to a change in voting systems and to discover whether
different groups of voters had fundamentally different experiences in utilizing a voting system with
which they had no prior experience. To carry out this ambitious research project, we engaged over one
hundred undergraduate students in two separate courses in November 2004, and one hundred students
in three courses in November 2005. In addition to producing scholarly research and serving the
community by supplying the city with a program evaluation, we had two primary pedagogical
objectives: using a community-based research project to teach survey research methods and encourage
political engagement among our students.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference,
Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC, 2006
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