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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

Cultural Theory as Political Science

Gunnar Grendstad • Routledge eBooks (2003)

This is the first major European political science book to discuss the growing interdisciplinary field of 'cultural theory', proposing a coherent and viable alternative to mainstream political science. The authors argue that three elements ...

OPENALEX public-domain DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203197646

Political Theory and Political Science

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2007.5411302

What's Queer about Political Science?

Nicola J. Smith, Donna Lee • The British Journal of Politics and International Relations (2014)

Research Highlights and Abstract The study of gender, sexuality—and, in particular, queer theory—is central to the social sciences and humanities. Our analysis of citation practices shows that queer theorist Judith Butler is one of the most...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-856x.12037

Experimentation in Political Science

Rebecca B. Morton, Kenneth C. Williams • Oxford University Press eBooks (2009)

Abstract This article mentions that the number of experiments has increased dramatically in political science in the last thirty-five years because of their power for making causal inferences. It directly confronts the Achilles heel of expe...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199286546.003.0014

Jihad as Reflected in Biḥār al-Anwār

Masoomeh Mostofi, Mahdi Mehrizi, Mojgan Sarshar • Religious Inquiries (2020)

Different views of Muslim scholars concerning jihad arises from, and is grounded in, the Quran and hadiths transmitted from the Prophet or Imams. In this paper, we study and analyze hadiths related to jihad as collected in Biḥār al-anwār. W...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22034/ri.2021.265524.1462

The Political Science of Federalism

Jenna Bednar • Annual Review of Law and Social Science (2011)

This article highlights political science's interest in the distribution of authority between federal and state governments. The authority boundaries are studied (a) as mechanism design problems, where authority is allocated optimally to ac...

OPENALEX cc-by-sa DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-102510-105522