Mission
The Academy has a three-fold educational mission to:
- contribute to the scholarly examination of political institutions, processes, and public policies;
- enrich political discourse and channel the best social science research in an understandable way to political leaders for use in public policy making and the process of governing;
- educate members of the general public so that they become better informed participants in the democratic process.
The major vehicles for accomplishing these goals are primarily the Academy's journal, Political Science Quarterly, published since 1886, as well as Academy conferences, books, and other publications.
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