Academic Articles & Research Papers

Geography and Trade

I have spent my whole professional life as an international economist thinking and writing about economic geography, without being aware of it, begins Paul Krugman in the readable and anecdotal style that has become a hallmark of his writin...

Participación e incidencia de las agencias reguladoras en el ciclo de las políticas públicas: Caso de estudio comparado en Colombia

Este artículo analiza cómo participan e inciden las agencias reguladoras en el ciclo de las políticas públicas en Colombia. La investigación desarrolla un caso de estudio comparativo de la Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio (SIC) y la...

Financing of Entrepreneurial Firms in Canada: Some Patterns

This article analyzes the patterns of financing for entrepreneurial firms in Canada. We compare the predictions of major theories of entrepreneurial finance and some more recent ideas (e.g., crowdfunding-related ideas/theories) with empiric...

Archbishop Mečislovas Reinys: his Letters from the Vladimir Prison

The article is devoted to the last period of Archbishop Reinys’ life (1947–1953), when he was arrested by the Soviet security on 12 June 1947, interrogated for half a year, held in the basement of the Vilnius KGB, sentenced to 8 years, and ...

Retribución: Técnicas e ideas básicas

Perpetrators of Genocide: An Explanatory Model of Extraordinary Human Evil

According to Jewish-Christian tradition, the first time that death appeared in the world, it was murder. Cain slew Abel. “Two men,” says Elie Wiesel, and “one of them became a killer.”1 Throughout human history, social conflict is ubiquitou...

Trust in Colombia’s Justicia Especial Para La Paz: Experimental Evidence

Research on the determinants of institutional trust in courts that are part of transitional justice frameworks is scarce. This article relies on experimental evidence to explore whether features of the case and the ruling play a role in cit...

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on drug markets, prevention and treatment in Ukraine

This paper aims to highlight some issues, challenges and trends caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the drug scene and the system of drug prevention in Ukraine. This article is based on the official statistics, available qualitative and quan...

De la recherche de terrain sur la production agricole illégale de drogue

Explaining what are the practicalities and the stakes of conducting fieldwork on illegal drug crop production matters since it is only through fieldwork that empirical data can be gathered. It is all the more necessary since this kind of re...

Education for Sustainable Development and Social Tolerance: Evidence from Teacher Education Institutions in Pakistan

Education for sustainable development is an evolving notion in teacher education that highlights the need for tolerance, acceptance, and diversity. Therefore, there is a greater need to elucidate the contributions of teacher educators in pr...

Sfera Politicii's Archive - Elena Ceausescu in the records

I don’t know why the idea that Elena Ceauşescu was the key element of her husband’s regime slowly stared to take shape. It is said that by growing older he started to lose his capacity of taking decisions, so he was more and more dependent ...

Political Science and Conservation Biology: a Dialog of the Deaf

"The reasons political scientists neglect conservation biology and biodiversity may lie even deeper than incentives related to publication and hiring. They may have more to do with what political scientists view as the most important issues...

Networks in Political Science: Back to the Future

What are the relational dimensions of politics? Does the way that people and organizations are connected to each other matter? Are our opinions affected by the people with whom we talk? Are legislators affected by lobbyists? Is the capacity...

Political Science

Set opposite to all the various forms of so-called psychical interpretation, the people have a dead political science. When it is necessary to touch up this barren formalism with a glow of humanity, an injection of metaphysics is used. Ther...

Political Science in the United States

The International Political Science Review had originally planned to include an article in each issue on some aspects of the state of political science generally and also in specific countries. Severe space constraints and the sloth of the ...

The Enterprise of Political Science: The Multiple Communities of Political Science

Political science is not what the political scientist does. While the political scientist brings to a subject many orientations that create scholarship, what makes such work political science is its being embedded in a framed set of relatio...

Modern Political Science

Since emerging in the late nineteenth century, political science has undergone a radical shift--from constructing grand narratives of national political development to producing empirical studies of individual political phenomena. What caus...

Perestroika! The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science

Perestroika! The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science. Edited by Kristen Renwick Monroe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 608p. $35.00. Critics have berated the Perestroika movement since it erupted in 2000 for engaging in academic...

International Relations in the prison of Political Science

In recent decades, the discipline of International Relations (IR) has experienced both dramatic institutional growth and unprecedented intellectual enrichment. And yet, unlike neighbouring disciplines such as Geography, Sociology, History a...

The Diffusion of Policy Diffusion Research in Political Science

Over the past fifty years, top political science journals have published hundreds of articles about policy diffusion. This article reports on network analyses of how the ideas and approaches in these articles have spread both within and acr...