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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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2131095
• Electoral Studies
(1982)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0261-3794(82)90196-2
Keith M. Dowding (2016)
This original account of the role of philosophy and methodology in political sciences gets back to the basics of studying politics. Cutting through long-standing controversies across different theoretical camps within the discipline, Dowdin...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-57270-7
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.polisci.8.082103.104911
Lisa Wedeen • American Political Science Review
(2002)
This essay makes a case for an anthropological conceptualization of culture as “semiotic practices” and demonstrates how it adds value to political analyses. “Semiotic practices” refers to the processes of meaning-making in which agents' pr...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055402000400
Ilkka Päiväläinen (2014)
Find Political Science articles, journals, books, databases and library's services. / Loyda valtio-opin artikkelit, lehdet, kirjat, tietokannat ja kirjaston palvelut....
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• Electoral Studies
(1982)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0261-3794(82)90247-5
Mark Bevir, Rod A. W. Rhodes • Routledge eBooks
(2015)
Interpretive political science focuses on the meanings that shape actions and institutions, and the ways in which they do so. This Handbook explores the implications of interpretive theory for the study of politics. It provides the first de...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315725314
David Easton • Ethics
(1955)
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A. R. Louch, Hugh Stretton • History and Theory
(1972)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2504629
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592710001192
• Electoral Studies
(1983)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0261-3794(83)90142-7
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1049096500050629
Sheila Slaughter, David M. Ricci • The Journal of Higher Education
(1986)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.1986.11778765
Lee Sigelman • American Political Science Review
(2006)
In November of 1906, the 3-year-old American Political Science Association, boasting a membership of “nearly four hundred” (Shaw 1907, 185), launched a journal devoted to scholarship, reviews, and news of the profession. The fledgling Ameri...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055406060333
Pennock, J. Roland • Government College, Kota
(1964)
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David Dunham (2017)
Designed for political science students, this guide takes you through the Library’s resources to improve your research. Designed for political science students, this guide takes you through the Library’s resources to improve your research....
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Lana Wilson (2017)
Designed for political science students, this guide takes you through the Library’s resources to improve your research. Designed for political science students, this guide takes you through the Library’s resources to improve your research....
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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 ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203197646
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2007.5411302