PoliSci students and the PoliSci profession

We conducted our field research during the 2021-2022 academic year, visiting 11 universities in three Southeast European countries: Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia. Our population consisted of students enrolled in Political Science or a related subdiscipline, such as Public Administration, Public Policy, and Security Studies. We did not attempt to sample all students enrolled in those programs – students who rarely attend class would not exhibit whatever benefits research-based learning might bring – but we did revisit each classroom twice rather than miss occasional absentees. Our resulting sample frame consisted of 637 active students.