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Facing Failure: The Use (and Abuse) of Rejection in Political Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2006

Gregory Weeks
Gregory Weeks
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University of North Carolina, Charlotte
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Not long ago, I received a packet of papers, the contents of which explained why my latest article submission was rejected by a well-known peer-reviewed journal. Like everyone else, I've been in this position before, but this time two things led me to more contemplation than usual. First, it was the first rejection since I received tenure, and I noted that job security did little to dampen my disappointment. Second, it came very shortly after I ran into a senior colleague, who noted fairly casually that two of his articles had just been turned down, one of them by a top political science journal.

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THE PROFESSION
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , October 2006 , pp. 879 - 882
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© 2006 The American Political Science Association

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