Top Research Papers on Political Science

Students often tell me that they feel disconnected from politics and that they do not participate in politics because their voices do not matter. At the beginning of my introductory course this year, I provided a classroom space for students to address these concerns. Students anonymously filled out an online survey and their responses appeared behind me on an overhead screen. One of the questions I asked in the survey was whether they have faith in American democracy. As the responses populated the screen, it was clear that they were strikingly similar: “I believe that American democracy is m...

Key findings from recent literature about the policy, political, and structural contributors to population health and health equity are reviewed and what a political economy of health more deeply rooted in political science could look like are sketched.

Despite increasing interest in recent years, disability remains a neglected area of study within mainstream political science. Beginning with a brief overview of the ways that disability studies scholars have defined disability, I address the issues that have arisen in trying to measure disability as well as the limits and possibilities that follow from thinking of people with disabilities as a minority group with defined political beliefs and interests. To the extent that much of the work on disability in political science looks to the research on gender, race, ethnicity, and class as a touch...

Bureaucracy is everywhere. Unelected bureaucrats are a key link between government and citizens, between policy and implementation. Bureaucratic politics constitutes a growing share of research in political science. But the way bureaucracy is studied varies widely, permitting theoretical and empirical blind spots as well as opportunities for innovation. Scholars of American politics tend to focus on bureaucratic policy making at the national level, while comparativists often home in on local implementation by street-level bureaucrats. Data availability and professional incentives have reinforc...

In the contemporary history of Russian political science, there is a common view that the formation of the Soviet political scientific tradition and Russian political science occurs in the late 1980s - early 1990s. That was the time when Russian political science began to gain its subjectivity, borrowing its tools and agenda from the West: from an understanding of “politics” and “power” to the fashion to research some popular issues as democratization and modernization. One of the objectives of this article is to present an alternative point of view and draw some attention not only to the dura...

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 the West the first deliberate and reflective studies of political life were made in Greece at the end of the th century BC, and in the succeeding century. The histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, some of the pamphlets attributed to Xenophon, above all the normative and empirical studies of Plato and Aristotle were among the direct ancestors of contemporar...

Abstract There is no evidence that the founders of the Caucus for a New Political Science (CNPS) put much thought into the organization’s name because it was initially founded as an ad hoc caucus and there was no expectation that it would still exist more than a half-century later. However, even in the intellectual context of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the name “New Political Science” was something of an oddity as comparable dissident movements in other social science and humanities disciplines were adopting the terms Radical or Critical to name their new insurgent organizations. After de...

Is the science capable to act as the subject of political action? This question is considered as one of themes of the modern philosophy of science. It could not be posed within the framework of the philosophy of science concentrated only on the analysis of logical structures of scientific knowledge or on problems of its dynamics defined by procedures of rational reconstruction of history of science. In this framework, influence of factors of a sociо-cultural context on the formal and substantive aspects of scientific processes was not a subject of the philosophical analysis. However, the inter...

This textbook provides an overview of the political science discipline and is suitable for introductory courses at the undergraduate level. In Part I, the book covers important themes for political science undergraduate majors, such as defining politics, ideologies, institutions of governance, concepts in democracy, and public law. Part II provides an overview of the major subdisciplines in political science: political theory, international relations, comparative politics, American politics, public policy and public administration, and methods. This textbook serves as an excellent resource in ...

Review of "When Science Meets Power" by Geoff Mulgan.

Social ideology and all modern derivatives begun with either Adam Smith, 1776, Wealth of Nations, or Karl Marx, 1848, The Communist Manifest, with Engels. Neither are grounded on science both were created before there existed even the most basic understanding of psychology. Neither deals with modern understanding of the forces that drive a modern free democratic society. Both ideologies have globally failed. My work, the spiritual model of humanity, corrects this failure. It begins with a scientific general theory of psychology which itself must begin with the question what exactly is the rela...

At its heart, intersectionality is a study of relative power. As such, political scientists have employed this approach as both a theory and method to examine political behavior and the state’s interaction with social groups as citizens and noncitizens. Intersectionality is a framework that recognizes the interconnectedness of sociopolitical categories that overlap with systems of discrimination or disadvantage. The study of intersectionality is interdisciplinary and does not have one academic home. As such, we compiled a list of texts that have used this concept, methodological framework, or ...

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ABSTRACT The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently replaced its long-standing Political Science Program with two new programs: the Security and Preparedness Program and the Accountable Institutions and Behavior Program. This article evaluates the likely impact of the reform by way of original survey data. The NSF Program Change Survey asked past recipients of the Political Science Program Standard Grant to evaluate their own previously funded proposals according to the new NSF program descriptions. Respondents were asked whether they would apply for the same research project under the new...

A brief introduction to LLMs is provided and two examples of LLMs from recent research are used to illustrate how LLMs open new areas of research.

This article reviews and summarizes current reproduction and replication practices in political science. We first provide definitions for reproducibility and replicability. We then review data availability policies for 28 leading political science journals and present the results from a survey of editors about their willingness to publish comments and replications. We discuss new initiatives that seek to promote and generate high-quality reproductions and replications. Finally, we make the case for standards and practices that may help increase data availability, reproducibility, and replicabi...

Abstract Recent accounts of American politics focus heavily on urban–rural gaps in political behavior. Rural politics research is growing but may be stymied by difficulties defining and measuring which Americans qualify as “rural.” We discuss theoretical and empirical challenges to studying rurality. Much existing research has been inattentive to conceptualization and measurement of rural geography. We focus on improving estimation of different notions of rurality and provide a new dataset on urban–rural measurement of U.S. state legislative districts. We scrutinize construct validity and meas...

Living Labs foster participatory prototyping and technology testing in “real-life” situations. The literature exhibits a weak approach to Living Labs’ power relations. It is crucial to understand the visual apparatus employed by Living Labs because they model power relations inherent to participation, especially when commercial interests are involved. Some Living Labs’ visual models display indifference towards power imbalances and unquestioned faith in progress, diminishing the space for divergent positions. Living Labs are just the newest manifestation of the fundamental challenges of makin...

Political socialisation refers to a process in which every individual who is born into society learns the basic values, institutions and rules of the society into which it is born and becomes compatible with the political culture. In this process, the individual learns the boundaries of their own society unconsciously, the roles in that society, the forms of behaviour deemed legitimate and political beliefs. In political socialisation as a learning process, institutions such as family, friendship networks, school, mass media and religion have constructive and transformative roles in the proces...

In this literature review, we aim to answer the question, is political science a science? through revisiting the work of Gabriel Almond and Stephen Genco, titled Clouds, clocks, and the study of politics (1977). We will show the paradigm shift in understanding the subject matter of social sciences in terms of epistemology, ontology, and methodology, from the positivist clock-like model to the plastic model of the post- behavioralist schools, relying on the three-stage metamorphosis of Popper’s metaphor of clouds and clocks. Then, we will show how our definition of science has transformed from ...

Social and political change is occurring in Aotearoa New Zealand and tikanga, mātauranga, te reo Māori (the Māori language) and Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Treaty of Waitangi) are increasingly being recognised in diverse political and legal contexts. This article explores whether the political science discipline is keeping pace with these political changes, whether research and course content is adequately reflecting these new realities, and if students are appropriately equipped to participate. In particular, we examine the state of university politics programs and outline the form and quantity of ...

In this article, I review Daniel J. Galvin's Alt-Labor and the New Politics of Workers' Rights and situate it within a renewed scholarly interest in the politics of work and labor in the American politics subfield. I argue the book highlights several strengths and weaknesses of the literature, including the book’s attention to how America's highly polarized and fragmented governing system structures the politics of workers’ rights. Galvin’s book, I argue, also helps push the literature forward by encouraging scholars to think more deeply about the shifting institutional location of worker po...

ReseñaTítulo: The Politics of Political Science: Re-Writing Latin American ExperiencesAutor: Paulo RaveccaAño de publicación: 2019Edición: PrimeraPáginas: 292ISBN: 978 0815363088Editorial: Routledge   La Política de la Ciencia Política de Paulo Ravecca ofrece un magnífico análisis sobre varios puntos fundamentales dentro de la institucionalización de la ciencia política y su epistemología. El libro de Ravecca es, en esencia, novedoso tanto en los temas que aborda como en su aproximación metodológica: un análisis comparado que triangula con investigación autoetnográfica, una forma poco conve...

This work examines 93 931 articles across the top 160 political science and international relations journals between 2010 and 2021 and finds that approximately 21% of all statistical inference papers have open data and 5% of all experiments are preregistered.

A distinction between the “hard” and “soft” scientific disciplines is a modern commonplace, widely invoked to contrast the natural and the social sciences and to distribute value accordingly, where it was generally agreed that it was good to be “hard,” bad to be “soft.” I trace the emergence of the distinction to institutional and political circumstances in the United States in the second part of the twentieth century; I describe varying academic efforts to give the contrast coherent meaning; I note the distinction’s uses in disciplines’ reflections on their own present and possible future sta...

Throughout my life, politics and political science have been intertwined. I handed out leaflets for Adlai Stevenson at age 12, participated in protests at Oberlin and Berkeley, and, as I developed professional expertise, worked with national security agencies. Conflict has been a continuing interest, particularly whether situations are best analyzed as a security dilemma or aggression. In exploring this question, I was drawn into both political psychology and signaling, although the two are very different. I have continued to work on each and occasionally try to bring them together. My thinkin...

In Germany, the discipline known traditionally as Völkerkunde or Ethnologie is currently (as a result of Anglophone dominance) being rebranded as Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie. Irrespective of the name, as a holistic field of enquiry, anthropology exemplifies the difficulties involved in demarcating boundaries between the humanities and the social and natural sciences. In the German language, all three are forms of science (Wissenschaft). Following these preliminaries, this paper draws on the celebrated ‘vocation’ lectures of Max Weber to probe the political dimensions of anthropological res...

A translation of a paper by the Austrian philosopher and lawyer Hans Kelsen devoted to the conceptual understanding of the principle of objectivity in hu ma ni tarian knowledge is presented. The paper was published in The American Po li tical Science Review in 1951.

Classical Realism represents a science of politics that is distinct from the conventional understanding of science in International Relations. The object of Realist science is the art of politics, which is the development of a sensibility based on practical knowledge to balance values and interests and to make judgments. Realism’s science and its object led to its tagging as “wisdom literature.” This article illustrates that reading Hans Morgenthau’s and Raymond Aron’s work shows how their hermeneutic form of enquiry provides insights into the character of international politics, which convent...

As political science rethinks the undergraduate major for the twenty-first century, it is important to renew the civic-engagement aspects of the discipline, including new ways to approach service learning, internships, and other civically engaged pedagogies. We developed a model of civically engaged pedagogy that furthers the goals of the discipline and of Rutgers University–Newark to deepen our relationships with community organizations and provide students with hands-on learning experiences in courses across the subfields of the discipline. This article discusses our approach.

: This target article has three parts. The first briefly reviews the thinking about nonhuman animal s’ sentience in the Western canon: what we might know about their capacity for feeling, leading up to Bentham’s famous question “can they suffer?” The second part looks at the modern development of animal welfare science and the role that animal-sentience considerations have played therein. The third part describes the launching, by Compassion in World Farming (now called Compassion ), of efforts to incorporate animal sentience language into public policy and associated regulations concerning hu...

Chinese wedding culture has a long history and rich tradition. In its development, it went through two stages and from traditional to modern. This process is a sign of social evolution and progress. The author analyzes the evolution of traditional Chinese wedding rites and customs in six representative periods: the Qing (221–207 BC) and Han (206 BC — 220 AD) dynasties; the Tang (618–907) and Song (960–1279) dynasties; the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1616–1911) dynasties; Republic of China (1912–1949); the time after establishing the People’s Republic of China until the Cultural Revolution (1949...

Contemporary political theory demonstrates a turn towards data-sensitive research. Waldron, Shapiro, Carens, Blau and Floyd emphasise the importance of grounding political theory in empirical data. Political scientists developed methods aimed at improving the ways in which political institutions are studied. What can empirical political theory borrow from this literature, that would advance its aim to precisely evaluate political institutions? It is suggested to naturalise within political theory political-science methods. We point to three methods: the usage of case studies, avoiding sampling...

The challenges of including factual information in public policy and political discussions are many. The difficulties of including scientific facts in these debates can often be frustrating for scientists, politicians and policymakers alike. At times it seems that discussions involve different languages or dialects such that it becomes a challenge to even understand one another’s position. Oftentimes difference of opinion leads to laws and regulations that are tilted to the left or the right. The collaborative balancing to insure public and natural resource interests are protected ends up bein...

p. 136). Basically this posed the question whether legislation which restricts political processes should not be subjected to more exacting scrutiny than other types of legislation. Mason goes on to note that those who emphasize the First Amendment freedoms are on more solid constitutional ground than those whose preference runs to property rights since the only constitutional safeguard to property is "due process of law" while the First Amendment sets forth the specific injunction that "Congress shall make no law . . . ." Chapter Nine, "State Power Today," in the Roettinger book cannot be too...

as ‘epistemic objects’. Organization Studies 30(1): 7–30. Flash Forward (2009–2010) ABC. HBO Entertainment/ABC Studios/Phantom Four Films. Heroes (2006–2010) NBC. NBC Universal Television Studio/Universal Media Studios. Homeland (2011–2019) Showtime. Teakwood Lake Productions/Cherry Pie Productions/Keshet Broadcasting/Fox 21. Mittell J (2015) Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Storytelling. New York; London: New York University Press.

The American Political Science Association recently cautioned against the use of misinformation (giving research participants false information about the state of the world) in research with human subjects. This recommendation signals a growing recognition, as experimental research itself grows in prevalence in political science, that deceptive practices pose ethical problems. But what is wrong with misinformation in particular? I argue that while this question certainly has an ethical dimension, misinformation is bad for inference too. Misinformation moves us away from answering questions abo...

This book is a generational stocktaking over the contemporary state of political science research on the Middle East and North Africa. It presents the major theoretical developments that have unfolded since the Arab uprisings in 2011–12, while highlighting the critical knowledge and fruitful literatures that regional experts have contributed to mainstream political science. It features nearly fifty regional specialists, whose twelve chapters tackle the prevailing themes that gird the contemporary study of Middle East politics. Among the many topics touched upon are authoritarianism and democra...

This keynote reflects on some of the barriers to digitised parliamentary resources achieving greater impact as research tools in political history and political science. As well as providing a view on researchers’ priorities for resource enhancement, I also argue that one of the main challenges for historians and political scientists is simply establishing how to make best use of these datasets through asking new research questions and through understanding and embracing unfamiliar and controversial methods than enable their analysis. I suggest parliamentary resources should be designed and pr...

Political decisions, constellations, and behaviors exert a large influence of the dynamics of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (Sars‐CoV‐2) pandemic. Politics influences the choice of containment policies and the compliance with these policies—and therefore ultimately the epidemiological situation in each country, state, district, or even neighborhood. This introduction puts the articles collected in this special issue into the broader perspective of the social science literature on Covid‐19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Social Science Quarterly (Wiley-Blackwell) is t...

This theoretical review conceptualizes political polarization over science and argues that it is driven by two interrelated processes: through psychological science rejection and by adhering to a political ideology that explicitly contests science.

This discussion is about changes in the world, changes that affect us as academics, changes that affect us as empirical researchers (qualitative and quantitative), and changes that affect our students and our universities/ colleges I am an empirical social scientist, a political methodologist, and a statistician, so I will only discuss topics along these lines where I am qualified to make comments As of this re-rewriting, the country and the world are in various levels of lockdown and recovery because of Covid-19 During this difficult process it is clear that data and privacy issues are changi...

Current Insights explores emerging work that provides a launching point for research and teaching at the intersection of political and science learning.

The subject of the connection between science and politics is a modern trend in the research of philosophers of science. Focusing on the analysis of the relationship between science and politics from the standpoint of the social philosophy of science, the study aims to represent a political turn in the philosophy of science and epistemology. The methodological basis of the study are the strategies and approaches of the social philosophy of science. This is an interdisciplinary approach that allows to build bridges between the philosophy of science and political philosophy. The methodological s...

Plenty of political science textbooks have formed the game pattern each other.The main topics can be generalized into 12 schools.The formed game pattern reflects the breadth and complexity of the political science contents,and also shows that the academic field and political themes emphasize only on political power and management,but neglect political rights.To enhance the scientific level of political science,it must be guided by scientific theory,applied science research methods,construct a scientific system of game theory.Game theory in political science focus on political rights and politi...

This edition of the Journal contains a series of articles that focus on firearm-related death and injury and it might be profitable to consider the interplay among science, politics, and policy within the American system of government.

There was a time in Africa when a very high premium was placed on the study of law and political science. Those African elites who had been to British universities, in so far as their education was related to politics, tended to emphasize law. This was partly a function of the local needs. As nationalism started to create an impact, often against unsympathetic colonial administrations, defence of nationalists demanded legal expertise.

I am a lapsed political scientist. This is not a confession but a statement of fact. Not that I have been drummed out of the American Political Science Association (hereafter APSA or Association). Quite the contrary, like thousands of fellow lapsees, I am permitted to hold nominal membership in the Guild through the annual payment of dues. In defiance of the poly sci gospel that elections don't really count, I even have continued to discharge my electoral responsibilities for the selection of APSA officers and Council.

In this commentary, we identify a phonics-first ideology and its polemical distortions of research and science to promote legislation that constrains and diminishes the teaching of reading. We affirm our own, and a majority of reading professionals’, commitment to teaching phonics. However, we argue that phonics instruction is more effective when embedded in a more comprehensive program of literacy instruction that accommodates students’ individual needs and multiple approaches to teaching phonics—a view supported by substantial research. After summarizing the politicization of phonics in the ...

T notion of an “apolitical science” is appealingone might almost say axiomaticto many scientists. In contrast to the contingency and contextuality of ideas in the humanities or in social and political sciencelook, for example, at where the intellectual consensus once stood on the virtues of democracythe “hard” sciences are considered to attain knowledge that is reliable and in some sense “true” no matter what political milieu it arises in. Newton’s laws worked as well in nonrelativistic mechanics in the 17th century as they do today. The notion that science and politics do not mix is, more...