Academic Articles & Research Papers

Political Science Quarterly

Political Science and the Enlightenment of Enthusiasm

I provide a narrative of the emergence of an expressly articulated “political science” in the Scottish Enlightenment. Political science was designed by Hume, Smith, and others to advance both a Newtonian method for the study of politics and...

Political Science : An Introduction

PART I. THE BASES OF POLITICS Chapter 1. Politics and Political Science Chapter 2. Theories Chapter 3. Ideologies Chapter 4. States Chapter 5. Constitutions Chapter 6. Regimes PART II. POLITICAL ATTITUDES Chapter 7. Political Culture Chapte...

NARRATIVE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE

▪ Abstract Narratives—the stories people tell—provide a rich source of information about how people make sense of their lives, about how they construct disparate facts and weave them together cognitively to make sense of reality. Narrative ...

Human Nature in Politics: The Dialogue of Psychology with Political Science

This article compares two theories of human rationality that have found application in political science: procedural, bounded rationality from contemporary cognitive psychology, and global, substantive rationality from economics. Using exam...

Political Theory, Political Science and the End of Civic Engagement

Within a span of fifteen years civic engagement has become a cottage industry in political science and political theory, but the term has now outlived its usefulness and exemplifies Giovanni Sartori's worry about conceptual “stretching.” Th...

The New Revolution in Political Science

A new revolution is under way in American political science. The last revolution—behavioralism—has scarcely been completed before it has been overtaken by the increasing social and political crises of our time. The weight of these crises is...

Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science

Laboratory experiments, survey experiments and field experiments occupy a central and growing place in the discipline of political science. The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science is the first text to provide a comprehensiv...

Tourism politics and political science

The tragedy of political science

Political Theory and Political Science

Like Rachel, Jacob's beloved but still childless bride, who asked herself and the Lord each morning, “Am I?,” or “Can I?,” so presidents of this Association on these annual occasions intermittently ask, “Are we a science?,” or “Can we becom...

For a More Public Political Science

Introductions designed to furnish brief yet inviting summaries of each issue's contents.Ever since June 2005, when I became Perspectives Book Review Editor, I have written Introductions that do more than summarize.I have sought to highlight...

Perestroika!: the raucous rebellion in political science

This superb volume describes the events and ramifications of a revolt within the political science discipline that began in 2000 with a disgruntled e-mail message signed by one Mr. The message went to seventeen recipients who quickly forwar...

The Oxford handbook of political science

A New Handbook of Political Science

Abstract Includes contributions from over 40 political scientists from around the world and surveys developments in the discipline over the past 20 years. Discusses each of the main sub‐disciplines: political institutions, political behavio...

Introduction to Political Science

The Encyclopedia of political science

The encyclopedia of political science offers a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the central ideas, ideologies, and frameworks underlying the study of politics, and highlights the intersections of politics with philosophy, cultural ...

Theory and Methods in Political Science

Now with substantial extra coverage of methodological issues and an additional chapter on the philosophy of politics, this widely-used text introduces students to the approaches and methods of political science...

Political Science: The Discipline

Abstract What is political science and what are its main contentions? Reviews the discipline and its contemporary boundaries with regard to theoretical questions and methodological integration. The discipline is maturing, seen in an embrace...

Institutional Theory in Political Science

Institutional Theory in Political Science provides an in-depth analysis of contemporary institutional theory, an essential tool to understand the world of politics and government. Written by B. Guy Peters, a prominent expert in the field, t...