Although critical scholarship and community psychology share similar aspirations, the links between them remain unexplored and under-theorized. In this article we explore the implications of critical scholarship in various specialties for the field of community psychology. To understand the contributions of critical scholarship to a theory of power and action for social change, we conducted a s...

Race, Reform, and the Regulation of the Electoral Process: Recurring Puzzles in American Democracy is the first volume in Cambridge University Press’s Cambridge Studies in Election Law and Democracy series. It offers a critical reevaluation of three fundamental and interlocking themes in American democracy: the relationship between race and politics; the performance and reform of election syste...

In SJIS volume 20 (2008), Mathiassen and Nielsen analyzed engaged scholarship in Scandinavian IS research. They conclude that the collaborative research practice and tradition for conducting action research projects might be jeopardized by a recent and general tendency to publish in compliance with traditional IS research publication channels: Investing a substantial amount of time in collabora...

This essay focuses on the potential of information communication technologies to move the Public Administration (PA) scholarly community into a new information paradigm. We begin with a review of conventional approaches PA scholars use to communicate with each other, students, and practitioners. After illustrating advances in Web applications, we call for an ‘‘Open PA Scholarship’’ in which res...

A S MANY as 80% of papers published by the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATION fall within an area known as the scholarship of application [1].1 Recently, the TRANSACTIONS established a new set of criteria to evaluate manuscripts submitted in this area. This guest editorial is intended to demystify these new criteria and to help writers avoid some common mistakes. The guidelines given here suggest s...

BACKGROUND Social media are increasingly used in health professions education. How can innovations and research that incorporate social media applications be adjudicated as scholarship? OBJECTIVE To define the criteria for social media-based scholarship in health professions education. METHOD In 2014 the International Conference on Residency Education hosted a consensus conference of health...