Academic Articles & Research Papers

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...

The relationship between political philosophy and political science

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 ...

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...

Cosmopolitan political science

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...

The (Political) Science of Salt

Three decades of controversy over the putative blood pressure benefits from salt reduction are demonstrating how the demands of good science clash with the pressures of public health policy. Early studies seemed to support the value of salt...

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...

African American perspectives on political science

Section 1: and ScientistsErnest J. Wilson and Lorrie Frasure Still at the Margins: Persistence of Neglect of African American Issues in Science, 1985-2003 Hanes Walton and Robert Smith, The Variable and the American Science Association's of...

Political Science, History of

The Political System: An Inquiry into the State of Political Science

Ventures in Political Science

Reflecting an extraordinary career, Ventures in Political Science collects Gabriel Almond's most important work on the development of political science and democratic theory. An absorbing introduction—providing personal and historical conte...

What Is Political Science For?

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 ...

Interview Research in Political Science

A Global Ranking of Political Science Departments

Rankings of academic institutions are key information tools for universities, funding agencies, students and faculty. The main method for ranking departments in political science, through peer evaluations, is subjective, biased towards esta...

Basic Interests: The Importance of Groups in Politics and in Political Science

Ken W. Kollman; Basic Interests: The Importance of Groups in Politics and in Political Science, Political Science Quarterly, Volume 114, Issue 1, 1 March 1...

European Political Science

How to Map Arguments in Political Science

Abstract To venture into explanation of political action we need some map of our basic options: what kinds of explanations are out there? Even advanced students and scholars can find the landscape difficult to chart. We confront a bewilderi...

Rénover les grands ensembles ou développer le territoire ? Une mixité au filtre de l’action publique dans les banlieues populaires de l’agglomération de Bordeaux

Examiner l’usage et la traduction opérationnelle du référentiel de mixité sociale dans les politiques de rénovation urbaine en France, rend plus nettes les tensions entre les logiques d’une politique nationale centralisée et les démarches d...

Les salafistes marocains et la reconfiguration politico-religieuse post-2011 : fluctuation entre (dé)politisation, radicalisation et intégration

The article examines the complex and fluctuant relationship which exists between the Moroccan regime and salafists from the 1970s until the ‘Arab Spring’. In each moment of this evolution, the regime opts for a pragmatic approach which cons...

Multi-level governance readiness and regional policy capacity in supporting Indonesia’s new capital development

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 ...