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Michael Thompson, Gunnar Grendstad, Per Selle • Taylor & Francis eBooks
(2010)
This is the first major European political science book to discuss the growing interdisciplinary field of 'cultural theory', proposing a coherent and viable alternative to mainstream political science. The authors argue that three elements ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203197646_chapter_1
James Farr • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2003)
The idea that politics is, or can be, the subject of science is an ancient one that reaches back to Aristotle. Early modern expressions of the idea can be found in Machiavelli and Hobbes, as well as in Enlightenment thinkers from Hume to th...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521594424.018
William J. Ball • Social Science Computer Review
(1997)
This article describes and evaluates the current state of affairs in on-line publishing for political science. The advantages of on-line publication for political science are noted. Existing projects to put book reviews, newsletters, journa...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/089443939701500103
• Routledge eBooks
(2002)
In recent years the history of political science has become recognised as an important but neglected area of study. The Development of Political Science is the first comprehensive discussion of the subject in a comparative international per...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203203767
John S. Dryzek • The Journal of Politics
(1986)
Scientific progress is normally portrayed as a series of stable, rational choices between competing theories, research programs, or research traditions within a discipline. Progress of that sort cannot occur in political science because any...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2131095
Jonathan Mercer • Annual Review of Political Science
(2005)
▪ Abstract Prospect theory is the most influential behavioral theory of choice in the social sciences. Its creators won a Nobel Prize in economics, and it is largely responsible for the booming field of behavioral economics. Although intern...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.polisci.8.082103.104911
Paul Sabatier • PS Political Science & Politics
(1991)
Political scientists who are policy scholars often trace their lineage back to the pioneering work of Lerner and Lasswell (1951). But public policy did not emerge as a significant subfield within the discipline of political science until th...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1049096500050629
Lee Sigelman • American Political Science Review
(2006)
In November of 1906, the 3-year-old American Political Science Association, boasting a membership of “nearly four hundred” (Shaw 1907, 185), launched a journal devoted to scholarship, reviews, and news of the profession. The fledgling Ameri...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055406060333
Gunnar Grendstad • Routledge eBooks
(2003)
This is the first major European political science book to discuss the growing interdisciplinary field of 'cultural theory', proposing a coherent and viable alternative to mainstream political science. The authors argue that three elements ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203197646
Nicola J. Smith, Donna Lee • The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
(2014)
Research Highlights and Abstract The study of gender, sexuality—and, in particular, queer theory—is central to the social sciences and humanities. Our analysis of citation practices shows that queer theorist Judith Butler is one of the most...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-856x.12037
Rebecca B. Morton, Kenneth C. Williams • Oxford University Press eBooks
(2009)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199286546.003.0014
Thais Cristina dos Santos, Luiz Alberto Pilatti, Nei Alberto Salles Filho, Jackson William Pluskota • Revista Latinoamericana Estudios de la Paz y el Conflicto
(2025)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5377/rlpc.v6i11.18956
Nataliia Khoma, Oleksii Kokoriev • Romanian Journal of European Affairs
(2021)
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...
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Jenna Bednar • Annual Review of Law and Social Science
(2011)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-102510-105522
Michael D. Ward, Katherine W. Stovel, Audrey Sacks • Annual Review of Political Science
(2011)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.polisci.12.040907.115949
James D. Fearon • World Politics
(1991)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2010470
Alan Finlayson • Economy and Society
(2004)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0308514042000285279
Lucian W. Pye • American Political Science Review
(1990)
Political science is a discipline in constant danger of fragmentation because of the centrifugal pulls of our subfields and the contradictions in our scientific and humanistic traditions. We are, however, periodically brought together by th...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1963627
Molly Patterson, Kristen Renwick Monroe • Annual Review of Political Science
(1998)
▪ Abstract Narratives—the stories people tell—provide a rich source of information about how people make sense of their lives, about how they construct disparate facts and weave them together cognitively to make sense of reality. Narrative ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.polisci.1.1.315
Ben Berger • Perspectives on Politics
(2009)
Within a span of fifteen years civic engagement has become a cottage industry in political science and political theory, but the term has now outlived its usefulness and exemplifies Giovanni Sartori's worry about conceptual “stretching.” Th...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s153759270909080x