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I believe this is the Stanford discussion everyone is referring to? I found this thread at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/poli ... message/23 RE: [polisciapps] Re: Stanford PoliSci Admissions? No. Search committees will be more impressed with solo work than research done with a faculty member (especially if said faculty member is an advisor or senior scholar). They're likely to attribute the majority of the credit to the professor rather than the grad student. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: polisciapps@yahoogroups.com From: beccafspace@... Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:20:15 +0000 Subject: [polisciapps] Re: Stanford PoliSci Admissions? Wow, what any of us wouldn't give to be in either Chen or Malhotra's shoes right now. I'm curious though about their decision to not publish this paper with a prof. There are so many famous profs at Stanford, wouldn't you want to work with one of them if you're going to publish in such a high-profile journal? It seems like the article would be better received that way, no? --- In polisciapps@yahoogroups.com, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: > > Of course, JSTOR's moving wall makes it useless in this scenario. Luckily, two > minutes on Google answered the question. > > The Law of k/n: The Effect of Chamber Size on Government Spending in Bicameral Legislatures > JOWEI CHEN and NEIL MALHOTRA > American Political Science Review, Volume 101, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 657-676 > > Chen and Malhotra are listed as current students on Stanford's web page. > > Given Malhotra's (lengthy) list of publications, I'd clamor to go to Stanford > to work with *him*. > > beccafspace (beccafspace@...) wrote: > > Does anyone have any background on this development? The APSR is the > > top political science journal, and I really don't think they publish > > graduate student solo work. In any case, what matters here is if > > these papers were written together with profs at Stanford. If so, > > then yes, I'd think there will be a hoard of this year's applicants > > wanting to work with those profs. Who's got JSTOR to look up this > > information? > >

I have a serious question (for quasar or anyone else). How does the job market decide who the "superstars" are going to be? What causes all these departments to agree to go after only a small number of job candidates? Not being facetious here, I'm genuinely curious about what makes someone a "superstar"?