This bundle includes Christine Barbour′s Keeping the Republic 9e and Lisa A. Baglione′s Writing a Research Paper in Political Science 4e
About the Author :
Christine Barbour teaches in the Political Science Department at Indiana University, and directs the department's IU POLS DC internship program. She is a faculty liaison for the University's dual-credit program, which delivers an online version of her Intro to American Politics class to high school students across the state. At Indiana, Professor Barbour has been a Lilly Fellow, working on a project to increase student retention in large introductory courses, and a member of the Freshman Learning Project, a university-wide effort to improve the first-year undergraduate experience. She has served on the New York Times College Advisory Board, working with other educators to develop ways to integrate newspaper reading into the undergraduate curriculum. She has won multiple teaching honors, but the two awarded by her students mean the most to her: the Indiana University Student Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Faculty and the Indiana University Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Brown Derby Award. When not teaching or writing textbooks, Professor Barbour enjoys traveling with her coauthor, blogging about food and travel, and playing with her dogs and cat. She contributes to Bloom Magazine of Bloomington and is a coauthor several cookbooks. She also makes jewelry from precious metals and rough gemstones. If she ever retires, she will open a jewelry shop in a renovated Airstream on the beach in Apalachicola, Florida, where she plans to write another cookbook and a book about the local politics, development, and fishing industry.
Dr. Lisa A. Baglione is a professor in the
Department of Political Science and a member
of the International Relations Program at Saint
Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Currently,
Dr. Baglione also serves as the co-director of the
Gender Studies Program.
During her career, Dr. Baglione has conducted
research in five areas, and while they
are varied, she has benefited from the ways that
insights from each have interwoven: negotiations
between adversaries, authoritarian transformation,
peacebuilding, gender in politics, and
pedagogy. She has published two other books, To
Agree or Not to Agree: Leadership, Bargaining, and
Arms Control with University of Michigan Press
and Writing a Research Paper in Political Science:
A Practical Guide to Inquiry, Structure, and
Methods, now in its fourth edition, with Sage.