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We are seeking content providers! College American Government is a collaborative effort, and we welcome the contributions of qualified persons. Proposals or requests for more information can be submitted to James Hanley, at .

Information for Content Contributors

College American Government is a collaborative project, but to ensure consistency in achieving the project goals (please see the “About” page), ...........

Contributors must be either qualified scholars or have significant real-world experience in the relevant topic.

Contributors will work collaboratively with the Board of Reviewers to identify the relevant elements of each topic that should be covered, and the relevant political science concepts that should be emphasized. “Collaborative” means that the Board of Reviewers may already have tentatively identified elements and concepts they believe should be covered, but contributors will have the opportunity to recommend additional elements and concepts or to recommend against items the Board has identified.

Contributors should, if at all possible, be willing to let their work be distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license, which will allow for unlimited redistribution for non-commercial purposes, but with no changes to the content allowed, and with attribution to the author required. If a contributor has a relevant work that has a more restrictive copyright, but can be used at no cost by College American Government, we will accept it if no content of similar quality is available under a less restrictive license.

College American Government is, at present, an unfunded project, so we cannot pay contributors.

All contributors will be identified in the content they provide, and on the College American Government website.

Please see the “About” page to understand the types of content we are seeking.

All content should be written in a “popular” style. This does not mean dumbed down, but written for an audience of reasonably intelligent non-experts. As models, consider the popular economics books of Paul Krugman or Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, or books on evolution by Richard Dawkins or Neil Shubin, or on physics by Richard Feynman or Stephen Hawking. As those books demonstrate, popular writing does not require the avoidance of technical terms or a lack of intellectual depth, but unnecessary jargon should be avoided, and the writing style should be straightforward and not convoluted.