Academic Articles & Research Papers

KEISTIMEWAAN PENATAAN RUANG MENURUT PERATURAN DAERAH ISTIMEWA PROVINSI DAERAH ISTIMEWA YOGYAKARTA

Yogyakarta sebagai salah satu daerah di Indonesia yang diberikan hak istimewa oleh pemerintah pusat sehingga dalam bentuk pemerintahannya menjadi berbeda dengan daerah lainnya. Bukan hanya bentuk pemerintahan akan tetapi pada aspek-aspek la...

Political Science

Abstract What does political science as a discipline contribute to the understanding of the relationship between business and government? The field has long been a stepchild within the discipline with many fewer practitioners than the study...

Experimentation in Political Science

In his 1909 American Political Science Association presidential address, A. Lawrence Lowell (1910) advised the fledgling discipline against following the model of the natural sciences: “We are limited by the impossibility of experiment. Pol...

Political Science

Abstract This entry provides an overview of how political science approaches the study of communication. Starting with the premise that for most people politics is a mediated experience, political science asks: mediated how, by whom, and wi...

Education in Political Science

Preface 1. Introduction Anja P. Jakobi, Kerstin Martens and Klaus Dieter Wolf Part 1: Comparative Education Politics 2. Veto-Points and the Politics of Introducing School Vouchers in the US and Sweden Michael B. Klitgaard 3. Towards Converg...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

Participación y Gestión Pública en Nuevo León, México

El propósito de este trabajo es examinar la reforma administrativa llevada a cabo por el gobierno del norteño estado mexicano de Nuevo León en el periodo 2003-2009, en especial en lo referente a la participación ciudadana ligada a la descen...

Von der Europäischen Rechtsgeschichte zu einer Rechtsgeschichte Europas in globalhistorischer Perspektive

Mit der Europäischen Rechtsgeschichte verfügt die Rechtsgeschichte seit vielen Jahrzehnten über eine Tradition transnationaler rechtshistorischer Forschung. Sie wurde von deutschsprachigen Wissenschaftlern der Vor- und N...

Courses and distances, wedges and difficulties of doctors’ formers in science and mathematics education

The problem put under focus stems from cultivation of doctoral actions, reactions and attitudes of doctors already practicing in other areas and that resolve to migrate to the areas of Science and Math Education to take-on collaboration-tra...

Bookchin’s libertarian municipalism

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 ...

DE LAS REDES ACTIVISTAS A LAS MULTITUDES CONECTADAS. MOVILIZACIÓN SOCIAL, PROTESTA GLOBAL Y TECNOLOGÍAS DE LA COMUNICACIÓN

Uno de los primeros ejemplos de apropiación y uso de las tecnologías digitales para la acción colectiva fue el surgimiento espontáneo de una red transnacional de solidaridad con el Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional de México a media...

Fragile States in African Economic Communities as Exemplified by the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) – Investment Issues

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 ...

Making Political Science Matter

Making Political Science Matter brings together a number of prominent scholars to discuss the state of the field of Political Science. In particular, these scholars are interested in ways to reinvigorate the discipline by connecting it to p...