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Wendy M. Rahn, John L. Sullivan, Thomas J Rudolph • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2002)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511510632.006
David M. J. Lazer • PS Political Science & Politics
(2011)
What are the relational dimensions of politics? Does the way that people and organizations are connected to each other matter? Are our opinions affected by the people with whom we talk? Are legislators affected by lobbyists? Is the capacity...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1049096510001873
Lisa Wedeen • Annual Review of Political Science
(2010)
The objectivist truth claims traditionally pressed by most political scientists have made the use of ethnographic methods particularly fraught in the discipline. This article explores what ethnography as a method entails. It makes distincti...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.polisci.11.052706.123951
Sheila Jasanoff • Reliability Engineering & System Safety
(1998)
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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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0951-8320(97)00129-4
Arthur F. Bentley, Thelma Z. Lavine • Routledge eBooks
(2017)
Set opposite to all the various forms of so-called psychical interpretation, the people have a dead political science. When it is necessary to touch up this barren formalism with a glow of humanity, an injection of metaphysics is used. Ther...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315134222-4
David Coen, Wyn Grant, Graham K. Wilson • Oxford University Press eBooks
(2010)
Abstract What does political science as a discipline contribute to the understanding of the relationship between business and government? The field has long been a stepchild within the discipline with many fewer practitioners than the study...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199214273.003.0002
Paul R. Brass • Annual Review of Political Science
(2000)
The subject matter of what has been traditionally considered central to political science, namely, power and government, has been stolen by Foucault while central trends in the discipline as a whole have departed markedly from serious engag...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.polisci.3.1.305
David Easton • International Political Science Review
(1985)
The International Political Science Review had originally planned to include an article in each issue on some aspects of the state of political science generally and also in specific countries. Severe space constraints and the sloth of the ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/019251218500600113
James N. Druckman, DONALD PHILIP GREEN, James H. Kuklinski, Arthur Lupia • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2011)
In his 1909 American Political Science Association presidential address, A. Lawrence Lowell (1910) advised the fledgling discipline against following the model of the natural sciences: “We are limited by the impossibility of experiment. Pol...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511921452.001
Hubert Tworzecki, Holli A. Semetko • Wiley eBooks
(2016)
Abstract This entry provides an overview of how political science approaches the study of communication. Starting with the premise that for most people politics is a mediated experience, political science asks: mediated how, by whom, and wi...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118766804.wbiect247
Michael Baggesen Klitgaard • Routledge eBooks
(2009)
Preface 1. Introduction Anja P. Jakobi, Kerstin Martens and Klaus Dieter Wolf Part 1: Comparative Education Politics 2. Veto-Points and the Politics of Introducing School Vouchers in the US and Sweden Michael B. Klitgaard 3. Towards Converg...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203873311
Keith M. Dowding, Charles Miller • European Journal of Political Research
(2019)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12319
Яков Пляйс, YAkov Plyays, A. V. Brega, A. Brega et al. (2019)
The textbook was created by a team of authors of the Department of political science of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation and is designed to study the main topics in the field of "political Science". Th...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12737/textbook_5cda979368bb50.69500952
Keith M. Dowding • Australian Journal of Political Science
(2020)
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 ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2020.1822776
Justin Rosenberg • International Relations
(2016)
In recent decades, the discipline of International Relations (IR) has experienced both dramatic institutional growth and unprecedented intellectual enrichment. And yet, unlike neighbouring disciplines such as Geography, Sociology, History a...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117816644662
Edgar Grande • British Journal of Sociology
(2006)
Until recently, the term cosmopolitism could rarely be found in modern political science literature. It was only in the 1990s that the term was rediscovered by political scientists in the critical discourse on globalization. In this article...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2006.00095.x
Erin R. Graham, Charles R. Shipan, Craig Volden • British Journal of Political Science
(2012)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123412000415
• Choice Reviews Online
(2007)
Section 1: and ScientistsErnest J. Wilson and Lorrie Frasure Still at the Margins: Persistence of Neglect of African American Issues in Science, 1985-2003 Hanes Walton and Robert Smith, The Variable and the American Science Association's of...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.44-7107
Simon Hix • Political Studies Review
(2004)
Rankings of academic institutions are key information tools for universities, funding agencies, students and faculty. The main method for ranking departments in political science, through peer evaluations, is subjective, biased towards esta...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1478-9299.2004.00011.x
Ken Kollman • Political Science Quarterly
(1999)
Ken W. Kollman; Basic Interests: The Importance of Groups in Politics and in Political Science, Political Science Quarterly, Volume 114, Issue 1, 1 March 1...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2658027