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The Political Science of Political Science

W. J. M. Mackenzie • Government and Opposition (1971)

PROFESSOR LAZARSFELD ONCE REFERRED TO SOCIOLOGY AS BEING IN A sense a residuary legatee, the surviving part of a very general study, out of which specializations have successively been shaped. The same might be said of political science. In...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1971.tb00816.x

CULTURAL THEORY AS POLITICAL SCIENCE

Michael Thompson, Gunnar Grendstad, Per Selle • Taylor & Francis eBooks (2010)

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 ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203197646_chapter_1

Political Science

James Farr • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2003)

The idea that politics is, or can be, the subject of science is an ancient one that reaches back to Aristotle. Early modern expressions of the idea can be found in Machiavelli and Hobbes, as well as in Enlightenment thinkers from Hume to th...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521594424.018

Political Science

William J. Ball • Social Science Computer Review (1997)

This article describes and evaluates the current state of affairs in on-line publishing for political science. The advantages of on-line publication for political science are noted. Existing projects to put book reviews, newsletters, journa...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/089443939701500103

Interpretive Political Science

R. A. W. Rhodes • Oxford University Press eBooks (2017)

This collection of essays is Volume II in a retrospective of previous publications. It looks forward and explores the ‘interpretive turn’ and its implications for the craft of political science, especially public administration. It draws to...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786115.001.0001

The Development of Political Science

• Routledge eBooks (2002)

In recent years the history of political science has become recognised as an important but neglected area of study. The Development of Political Science is the first comprehensive discussion of the subject in a comparative international per...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203203767

The History of Political Science

James Farr • American Journal of Political Science (1988)

Political science is once again rediscovering its past and retelling its history. In last few years several works have brought an end to an era when our discipline's historical reflections were limited to rather brief presidential addresses...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2111205

Scholasticism in Political Science

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592710001192

Political Science and Public Policy

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1049096500050629

Cultural Theory as Political Science

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 ...

OPENALEX public-domain DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203197646

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

What's Queer about Political Science?

Nicola J. Smith, Donna Lee • The British Journal of Politics and International Relations (2014)

Research Highlights and Abstract The study of gender, sexuality—and, in particular, queer theory—is central to the social sciences and humanities. Our analysis of citation practices shows that queer theorist Judith Butler is one of the most...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-856x.12037

Experimentation in Political Science

Rebecca B. Morton, Kenneth C. Williams • Oxford University Press eBooks (2009)

Abstract This article mentions that the number of experiments has increased dramatically in political science in the last thirty-five years because of their power for making causal inferences. It directly confronts the Achilles heel of expe...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199286546.003.0014

Deconsolidation of Liberal Democracy in the Baltic States. The Issue of Compliance with the EU Standards at Institutional and Value Levels

Nataliia Khoma, Oleksii Kokoriev • Romanian Journal of European Affairs (2021)

This article analyses compliance of the post-Soviet Baltic States with the EU liberal-democratic standards, at both institutional and value levels. The authors prove that fulfilment of the Copenhagen criteria for EU accession did not dete...

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