The Insider's Guide To Political Internships: What To Do Once You're In The Door

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This concise, highly practical volume provides an essential guide of how-to essays for students to succeed in political internships. Every year, thousands of college students invade Washington, D.C. and the fifty state capitals to volunteer as political interns. Unfortunately, they are rarely able to hit the ground running, lacking the tools to help them do so. The Insiders Guide to Political Internships provides those tools. This volume contains practical, concise essays written by political professionals and scholars with extensive experience supervising internships, as well as advice from many former interns. The book highlights internships on Capitol Hill, at the White House, in the executive branch, at the state level, in the Congressional district office, and at non-profit groups.

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Grant Reeher has been teaching a local political internship course every semester for the past three years, and has supervised numerous students in Washington internships over the past ten years. He is also chair of the American Political Science Association's Organized Section on Undergraduate Education, and edits its newsletter, The Political Science Educator. Mack Mariani is a former staffer for Representative Bill Paxon. He is currently a Ph.D. student in political science at Syracuse University, and a legislative staffer for the Monroe County Legislature (Rochester area, New York). He has extensive political contacts, and experience recruiting and training legislative interns, in part as a former staffer for The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars.