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Experimentation in Political Science

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511921452.001

What Is Political Science For?

Jane Jebb Mansbridge • Perspectives on Politics (2014)

This address advances three ideas. First, political science as a discipline has a mandate to help human beings govern themselves. Second, within this mandate we should be focusing, more than we do now, on creating legitimate coercion. In a ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s153759271300368x

DE LAS REDES ACTIVISTAS A LAS MULTITUDES CONECTADAS. MOVILIZACIÓN SOCIAL, PROTESTA GLOBAL Y TECNOLOGÍAS DE LA COMUNICACIÓN

Guiomar Rovira Sancho • Revista Internacional de Pensamiento Político (2018)

Uno de los primeros ejemplos de apropiación y uso de las tecnologías digitales para la acción colectiva fue el surgimiento espontáneo de una red transnacional de solidaridad con el Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional de México a media...

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A Normative Turn in Political Science?

John Gerring, Joshua C. Yesnowitz • Polity (2006)

Traditionally, the scientific study of politics has been associated with a value-neutral approach to the subject. One seeks to uncover what is, not what ought to be, in the political realm. This is what distinguishes a “positive” science fr...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.polity.2300054

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

La nuit à Maboneng (Johannesburg, Afrique du Sud) : un front urbain entre sécurisation, marchandisation et contestation

Chrystel Oloukoï, Pauline Guinard • L'Espace Politique (2016)

Simultaneously feared and desired, night is a polemic field in Johannesburg in general and in Maboneng in particular. In this space which is undergoing a process of gentrification in the lower-class neighbourhood of Jeppestown, the nocturna...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4000/espacepolitique.3977

Field Research in Political Science

Diana Kapiszewski, Lauren Morris Maclean, Benjamin L. Read • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2015)

Field research - leaving one's home institution in order to acquire data, information or insights that significantly inform one's research - remains indispensable, even in a digitally networked era. This book, the first of its kind in polit...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511794551

The Politics of Political Science

Paulo Ravecca • Routledge eBooks (2019)

In this thought-provoking book, Paulo Ravecca presents a series of interlocking studies on the politics of political science in the Americas. Focusing mainly on the cases of Chile and Uruguay, Ravecca employs different strands of critical t...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351110556

The Oxford Handbook of Political Science

Robert E. Goodin • Oxford University Press eBooks (2011)

Abstract This handbook is a schematic guide and a sampler on political science. It first provides an overview of the state of political science as a discipline before turning to a discussion of political theory and its relationship with the...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199604456.001.0001

Assessing Efficiency of Public Poverty Policies in UE-28 with Linguistic Variables and Fuzzy Correlation Measures

Jorge de Andrés-Sánchez, Angel Belzunegui-Eraso, Francesc Valls-Fonayet • Mathematics (2021)

The present study analyzes the efficiency of social expenditure by EU-28 countries within the period 2014–2018 to reduce poverty. The data are provided by programs European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and Euro...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/math9020128