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Lisa Wedeen • Annual Review of Political Science
(2010)
The objectivist truth claims traditionally pressed by most political scientists have made the use of ethnographic methods particularly fraught in the discipline. This article explores what ethnography as a method entails. It makes distincti...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.polisci.11.052706.123951
Michael A. Brintnall • SSRN Electronic Journal
(2006)
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...
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Robert Adcock, Mark Bevir, Shannon C. Stimson • Princeton University Press eBooks
(2009)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400827763
Keith M. Dowding • Australian Journal of Political Science
(2020)
Many ‘philosophy of … .’ subjects are closely intertwined with their subject matter, using the results in, say biology, or physics, or the content of history or art, as part-and-parcel of their subject matter. Political philosophy does not ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2020.1822776
Justin Rosenberg • International Relations
(2016)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117816644662
Edgar Grande • British Journal of Sociology
(2006)
Until recently, the term cosmopolitism could rarely be found in modern political science literature. It was only in the 1990s that the term was rediscovered by political scientists in the critical discourse on globalization. In this article...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2006.00095.x
Jane Jebb Mansbridge • Perspectives on Politics
(2014)
This address advances three ideas. First, political science as a discipline has a mandate to help human beings govern themselves. Second, within this mandate we should be focusing, more than we do now, on creating legitimate coercion. In a ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s153759271300368x
Andi Nur Fiqhi Utami, Aco Nata Saputra, Citra N. Fariaty, Achmad Fauzi Kusmin et al. • Frontiers in Political Science
(2026)
IntroductionThe establishment of Nusantara Capital City (IKN) as Indonesia’s new capital requires effective multi-level governance in which supporting provinces play a decisive role in ensuring administrative, infrastructural, and economic ...
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DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2026.1758903
Janet Biehl • Cadernos de Campo
(2019)
The purpose of this article is to present the Libertarian Municipalism Theory developed by Murray Bookchin. The text is divided into two sections. The first section presents the main precepts of Libertarian Municipalism. The second section ...
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Joanna Garlińska-Bielawska, Małgorzata Janicka • Politeja
(2018)
The region of Central Africa is abundant in both fragile states and economic communities. According to the theory of international economic integration, in the long term such integration processes should stimulate not only short-term trade ...
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DOI: 10.12797/Politeja.15.2018.56.13
John Gerring, Joshua C. Yesnowitz • Polity
(2006)
Traditionally, the scientific study of politics has been associated with a value-neutral approach to the subject. One seeks to uncover what is, not what ought to be, in the political realm. This is what distinguishes a “positive” science fr...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.polity.2300054
• Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2021)
Experimental political science has changed. In two short decades, it evolved from an emergent method to an accepted method to a primary method. The challenge now is to ensure that experimentalists design sound studies and implement them in ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108777919
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
John S. Dryzek, Stephen T. Leonard • American Political Science Review
(1988)
Once sparce and sporadic, histories of political science have proliferated in recent years. We contend that such histories are a necessary feature of the discourse of political science, because there are essential connections between the hi...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1961758
R. A. W. Rhodes • Oxford University Press eBooks
(2017)
This collection of essays is Volume II in a retrospective of previous publications. It looks forward and explores the ‘interpretive turn’ and its implications for the craft of political science, especially public administration. It draws to...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786115.001.0001
• Choice Reviews Online
(1998)
A generation ago, scholars saw interest groups as the single most important element in the American political system. Today, political scientists are more likely to see groups as a marginal influence compared to institutions such as Congres...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.36-1204
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
Lisa Wedeen • American Political Science Review
(2002)
This essay makes a case for an anthropological conceptualization of culture as “semiotic practices” and demonstrates how it adds value to political analyses. “Semiotic practices” refers to the processes of meaning-making in which agents' pr...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055402000400
Lawrence M. Mead • Perspectives on Politics
(2010)
Criticism of trends in political science centers on specific methodologies—quantitative methods or rational choice. However, the more worrisome development is scholasticism—a tendency for research to become overspecialized and ingrown. I de...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592710001192
Terence Ball • Theoria
(2007)
The too-often unhappy 'marriage' of political theory and political science has long been a source of anguish for both partners. Should this troubled partnership be dissolved? Or might this marriage yet be saved? Ball answers the former ques...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2007.5411302