Academic Articles & Research Papers

Experimentation in Political Science

Abstract This article mentions that the number of experiments has increased dramatically in political science in the last thirty-five years because of their power for making causal inferences. It directly confronts the Achilles heel of expe...

Juegos y Cultura de Paz: estrategias de enseñanza para una Educación para la Ciudadanía Global

Este estudio explora cómo los juegos digitales pueden ser utilizados como estrategias de enseñanza para promover la Cultura de Paz y la Educación para la Ciudadanía Global. Utilizando un enfoque cualitativo basado en la revisión bibliográfi...

Serviço Pastoral dos Migrantes da Arquidiocese de Campo Grande - MS. Desafios, conquistas e perspectivas

Book review: Armed violence, forced conscription and sexual violence

Review of the book: Cohen, Dara Kay Rape during Civil War Cornell University Press, 2016 288 págs....

Aukštų pareigūnų skyrimas pusiau prezidentiniame modelyje: Lietuvos atvejis*

Aukštų pareigūnų skyrimo galią Lietuvos prezidento institucijai priskiria ir prezidentų galias tyrinėjantys akademikai, ir politikos praktikai. Straipsnyje nagrinėjama, kas lemia prezidento dekretų, kuriais Seimui teikiamos aukštų valstybės...

Deconsolidation of Liberal Democracy in the Baltic States. The Issue of Compliance with the EU Standards at Institutional and Value Levels

This article analyses compliance of the post-Soviet Baltic States with the EU liberal-democratic standards, at both institutional and value levels. The authors prove that fulfilment of the Copenhagen criteria for EU accession did not dete...

A arte de salvar vidas perante a religião: alma eterna em questão?

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İŞLETMELERİN AR-GE VE PAZARLAMA HARCAMALARININ PAY DEĞERİ ÜZERİNDEKİ ETKİSİ

Bilimsel gelişmenin ve buna paralel olarak teknolojideki gelişmelerin hızı, işletmelerin ar-geyatırımlarına daha fazla yönelmesine imkân tanımaktadır. Bununla birlikte yoğun küresel rekabet, işletmeleri başarılı olabilmek için farklı pazarl...

La nuit à Maboneng (Johannesburg, Afrique du Sud) : un front urbain entre sécurisation, marchandisation et contestation

Simultaneously feared and desired, night is a polemic field in Johannesburg in general and in Maboneng in particular. In this space which is undergoing a process of gentrification in the lower-class neighbourhood of Jeppestown, the nocturna...

Reflexões sobre a crise dos regimes comunistas

Los Sistemas de Creencias en la política de drogas en Colombia 2000-2015. Un análisis desde el Marco de Coaliciones Promotoras

El fracaso de la lucha contra las drogas ilícitas en Colombia en las últimas décadas, el aumento en los índices de consumo y la relativa tendencia de algunos países a legalizar ciertas sustancias, hacen relevante retomar el análisis de las ...

Actores políticos, elecciones y sistemas de partidos. Una aproximación comparada desde la política subnacional en América Latina, de Carlos Varetto y Juan Pablo Milanese (eds.)

The Political Science of Federalism

This article highlights political science's interest in the distribution of authority between federal and state governments. The authority boundaries are studied (a) as mechanism design problems, where authority is allocated optimally to ac...

American Political Science review

Disciplining Political Science

Network Analysis and Political Science

Political science is fascinated with networks. This fascination builds on networks' descriptive appeal, and descriptions of networks play a prominent role in recent forays into network analysis. For some time, quantitative research has incl...

Counterfactuals and Hypothesis Testing in Political Science

Scholars in comparative politics and international relations routinely evaluate causal hypotheses by referring tocounterfactual caseswhere a hypothesized causal factor is supposed to have been absent. The methodological status and the viabi...

Machiavelli's Political Science

Machiavelli is presented as the founder of modern political science, with due regard to the fact that he never spoke of “political science.” His usage of “prudence” and “art” in The Prince is examined to see whether, as founder, he was a te...

Political science, political ideas and rhetoric

The article reviews ‘ideational’ analysis and theory in political science. It argues that this is an important area of research limited by lack of a clear sense of what ideas in politics are and of how to analyse them as directly as possibl...

Field Research in Political Science

Field research - leaving one's home institution in order to acquire data, information or insights that significantly inform one's research - remains indispensable, even in a digitally networked era. This book, the first of its kind in polit...