Academic Articles & Research Papers

Party affiliation, political ideology, views on democracy and society, and support for political violence in the United States of America: findings from a nationally representative survey.

From the Coal Age to Carbon Democracy: The Co-Evolution of Energy Regimes and Economic Thought

The study argues that the material and networked properties of energy carriers have co-evolved with the language of economics. It periodises the transformations from coal’s debates on stocks and efficiency, through the grid logic of electri...

Public Opinion, Public Policy, and Democracy

Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy

360-Degree Performance Appraisal Systems. Accounting and Reporting for Private Nonprofit Organizations-Balancing Economic Efficiency with Social Mission. Acquiring Resources Through Price Negotiation: A Public Sector Approach. Administrativ...

Janus-faced Populism: De-democratization or Democratization of Democracy?

As one of the most visible aspects of political life in recent years, the populist rises imply the ‘crisis of representation’ that means the existing institutional mechanism of representative democracy is ineffective in representing the var...

Media and cultural policy as public policy

The British Labour government's media and cultural policies since 1997 are analysed as aspects of public policy. This allows assessment of the media and cultural policies of a supposedly centre‐left government in a conjuncture marked by neo...

Community in Public Policy: Fad or Foundation?

Both internationally and within Australia public policy is experiencing a rush back to the idea of community. After 15 years of discourse about the new public management and economic rationalism a much older discourse is slipping back into ...

Public Opinion and Public Policy

Abstract The link between public opinion and public policy is of special importance in representative democracies, as we expect elected officials to care about what voters think. Not surprisingly, a large body of literature tests whether po...

Public Policy for Democracy.

A fundamental rethinking is under way about the roles of government, citizens, and community organizations in public policy. Can government be reconstructed to make public policies more responsive to citizens and thus more effective? This c...

Public Opinion and Public Policy

Abstract The key function of representative democracy is to provide a mechanism through which public opinion and public policy are regularly connected. On one hand, there should be policy representation; public preferences for policy should...

Post-Truth and Critical Communication Studies

Abstract While the periodizing concept “post-truth” (PT) initially appeared in the United States as a key word of popular politics in the form “post-truth politics” or “post-truth society,” it quickly appeared in many languages. It is now t...

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...

Ventures in Political Science

Reflecting an extraordinary career, Ventures in Political Science collects Gabriel Almond's most important work on the development of political science and democratic theory. An absorbing introduction—providing personal and historical conte...

Political Science

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...

Tocqueville’s New Political Science

“A new political science is needed for a world altogether new.”’ ( DAI Intro., 7) Here is a striking statement, given a paragraph to itself, from the Introduction to Tocqueville's Democracy in America . Although it could hardly be more prom...

The Tragedy of Political Science: Politics, Scholarship, and Democracy

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

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...

Reconciling marketing with political science: Theories of political marketing

This paper has two broad aims: to trace the theoretical development of political marketing and then demonstrate how these concepts can be used in the analysis of election campaigns. Electioneering is not the sole manifestation of marketing ...

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...

Political science : the state of the discipline

Editors Ira Katznelson and Helen V. Milner of Columbia University sought to reflect the vibrant, often contested, diversity of political science while chronicling the past decade's scholarship and prompting thought about future directions. ...