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The Changing Readability of Introductory Political Science Textbooks: A Case Study of Burns and Peltason, Government by the People

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2003

Thomas Heilke ,
Mark R. Joslyn  and
Alex Aguado
Thomas Heilke
Affiliation:
associate professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas. He teaches and publishes in the areas of political philosophy, the history of political thought, and politics and religion
Mark R. Joslyn
Affiliation:
assistant professor at the University of Kansas. He teaches and publishes in the areas of elections, public opinion, and political psychology
Alex Aguado
Affiliation:
a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Kansas. His dissertation examines social capital theory
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 229 - 232
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© 2003 by the American Political Science Association

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Footnotes

Support for this research was provided by the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Kansas and by a General Research Fund Faculty Grant (2001) from the University of Kansas. We are grateful to both of these University programs for their support.

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