constantbo

You judge me arrogantly just because you are a senior here? Here is a really political place... 去你妈了个逼

I got an email about fellowship application

political science focuses on institution's influence on peoples' behavior(how to act under certain institutional arrangement). For example, the policy coming from an independent central bank would be different from a dependent one, because the people under this institutional arrangement have different best strategic behavior course. So political science observes and finds out the laws of the relationship between the intuition and individual behaviors/economic performance(political economy)/…… IR as a subfield of political science view the international world as a regime, or supernational institution arrangement, and try to find out the laws of peoples’(governments’) behaviors through strategic choice under different internal(parliament, court)/external(international court, un, treaties) institutional arrangement. I don’t know about public affairs. Maybe someone else who is familiar with this field can give a skeletal view of the field for you.

Your profile/backgrounds are quite strong, and there is no reason for anxiety. Good luck!

As far as I know, political science is relatively different from policy or public administration. The latter emphasizes particularly on economical analysis of policies, while political science focuses on the institutions' behaviors. So you'd better make clear which is your real interests and apply to the right program with a matching SOP.

Now you would care about the time-length of Ph.D., but while you were a Ph.D. at the fourth year, you really would not care if to stay for an extra year for job seeking or producing a baby.

Congrats. You are the first one here who get good feedback from the applications.