When I was thinking of doing a PhD, a professor I applied for an RA with gave a very frank overview of the job market. It is really good practice to do that.
People should have that information before they consider a PhD.
Joe Noonan
Political Science's academic job market having its worst post-Covid year -- almost 20% fewer jobs than at the same point in the previous cycle (which itself was bad!)
Data scraped from APSA ejobs pdfs.
