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Political Science

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/089443939701500103

History and Discipline in Political Science

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1961758

Interpretive Political Science

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786115.001.0001

The Development of Political Science

• 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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203203767

The History of Political Science

James Farr • American Journal of Political Science (1988)

Political science is once again rediscovering its past and retelling its history. In last few years several works have brought an end to an era when our discipline's historical reflections were limited to rather brief presidential addresses...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2111205

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