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A Normative Turn in Political Science?

John Gerring, Joshua C. Yesnowitz • Polity (2006)

Traditionally, the scientific study of politics has been associated with a value-neutral approach to the subject. One seeks to uncover what is, not what ought to be, in the political realm. This is what distinguishes a “positive” science fr...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.polity.2300054

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

La nuit à Maboneng (Johannesburg, Afrique du Sud) : un front urbain entre sécurisation, marchandisation et contestation

Chrystel Oloukoï, Pauline Guinard • L'Espace Politique (2016)

Simultaneously feared and desired, night is a polemic field in Johannesburg in general and in Maboneng in particular. In this space which is undergoing a process of gentrification in the lower-class neighbourhood of Jeppestown, the nocturna...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4000/espacepolitique.3977

Field Research in Political Science

Diana Kapiszewski, Lauren Morris Maclean, Benjamin L. Read • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2015)

Field research - leaving one's home institution in order to acquire data, information or insights that significantly inform one's research - remains indispensable, even in a digitally networked era. This book, the first of its kind in polit...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511794551

The Politics of Political Science

Paulo Ravecca • Routledge eBooks (2019)

In this thought-provoking book, Paulo Ravecca presents a series of interlocking studies on the politics of political science in the Americas. Focusing mainly on the cases of Chile and Uruguay, Ravecca employs different strands of critical t...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351110556

The Oxford Handbook of Political Science

Robert E. Goodin • Oxford University Press eBooks (2011)

Abstract This handbook is a schematic guide and a sampler on political science. It first provides an overview of the state of political science as a discipline before turning to a discussion of political theory and its relationship with the...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199604456.001.0001

Assessing Efficiency of Public Poverty Policies in UE-28 with Linguistic Variables and Fuzzy Correlation Measures

Jorge de Andrés-Sánchez, Angel Belzunegui-Eraso, Francesc Valls-Fonayet • Mathematics (2021)

The present study analyzes the efficiency of social expenditure by EU-28 countries within the period 2014–2018 to reduce poverty. The data are provided by programs European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and Euro...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/math9020128