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Tocqueville’s New Political Science

Harvey C. Mansfield, Delba Winthrop • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2006)

“A new political science is needed for a world altogether new.”’ ( DAI Intro., 7) Here is a striking statement, given a paragraph to itself, from the Introduction to Tocqueville's Democracy in America . Although it could hardly be more prom...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol0521840643.004

The Progress of Political Science

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2131095

PROSPECT THEORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.polisci.8.082103.104911

Scholasticism in Political Science

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592710001192

Political Science and Public Policy

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1049096500050629