Academic Articles & Research Papers

Dębica i powiat dębicki pod władzą Armii Czerwonej w latach 1944–1945 w aspektach społeczno-politycznym i ekonomicznym

Artykuł poświęcony jest skutkom pobytu oddziałów Armii Czerwonej w powiecie dębickim w latach 1944–1945. Omówiono wpływ wojsk sowieckich i organów bezpieczeństwa ZSRR, przebywających na terenie tego powiatu, na sytuację społeczno-polityczną...

Research Guides: Political Science: Specializations of Political Science

This guide brings together some of the library resources related to political science. xxxx...

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Interdisciplinarity and Political Science

‘Interdisciplinarity’ is an ancient notion in the social sciences, but has acquired both pedagogic and policy popularity in recent decades. Paradoxically, it only makes sense in a disciplinary world. The disciplines have been greatly streng...

The Fundamentals of Political Science Research

The third edition of the best-selling The Fundamentals of Political Science Research provides an introduction to the scientific study of politics. It offers the basic tools necessary for readers to become both critical consumers and beginni...

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Political Science and Conservation Biology: a Dialog of the Deaf

"The reasons political scientists neglect conservation biology and biodiversity may lie even deeper than incentives related to publication and hiring. They may have more to do with what political scientists view as the most important issues...

Pre-Behavioralism in Political Science

Political behavior research has delivered less than the “behavioral revolution” seemed originally to promise. A survey of recent work suggests that the reason is not its epistemological premises (which are accepted here) or its methodology,...

Political Psychology and Political Science

In our other chapter in this volume, we discussed the history of the subfield of political psychology, tracing the rise, fall, and continuity of certain themes and theoretical approaches within it. In this chapter, we attempt to situate pol...

The political science of risk perception

Psychometric research on risk perception has frequently been invoked as evidence for a distinction between ‘actual’ risk as measured by experts and ‘perceived’ risk as experienced by laypersons. According to this view, perceived risk repres...

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Political Science and the Other Social Sciences

Abstract Political science has developed as a trans‐disciplinary process of hybridization. Innovation occurs in exchanges with other fields, and few political scientists work in a core of their subject. Political psychology, geography, soci...

The Political Sciences Routledge Library Editions: Political Science vol 46

Social science is a social activity as well as a method of discovery. The researchers’ values and politics colour their work and so do their choices of scientific method. This book is about both – the technical effects of values and the pol...

The Enterprise of Political Science: The Multiple Communities of Political Science

Political science is not what the political scientist does. While the political scientist brings to a subject many orientations that create scholarship, what makes such work political science is its being embedded in a framed set of relatio...

Capacities: Political Science in Europe

This essay portrays the capacities of political science in Western as well as in Central and Eastern Europe. The discussion is divided into four subtopics: (1) the political and social context in which European political science developed a...

On prediction in political science

Abstract This article discusses recent moves in political science that emphasise predicting future events rather than theoretically explaining past ones or understanding empirical generalisations. Two types of prediction are defined: pragma...

The relationship between political philosophy and political science

Many ‘philosophy of … .’ subjects are closely intertwined with their subject matter, using the results in, say biology, or physics, or the content of history or art, as part-and-parcel of their subject matter. Political philosophy does not ...

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...

The Diffusion of Policy Diffusion Research in Political Science

Over the past fifty years, top political science journals have published hundreds of articles about policy diffusion. This article reports on network analyses of how the ideas and approaches in these articles have spread both within and acr...