Academic Articles & Research Papers

The political science of risk perception

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...

Political Science

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...

Education in Political Science

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...

The Diffusion of Policy Diffusion Research in Political Science

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...

The Political System: An Inquiry into the State of Political Science

How to Map Arguments in Political Science

Abstract To venture into explanation of political action we need some map of our basic options: what kinds of explanations are out there? Even advanced students and scholars can find the landscape difficult to chart. We confront a bewilderi...

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...

Basic interests: the importance of groups in politics and in political science

A generation ago, scholars saw interest groups as the single most important element in the American political system. Today, political scientists are more likely to see groups as a marginal influence compared to institutions such as Congres...

The History of Political Science

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...

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...

Conceptualizing Culture: Possibilities for Political Science

This essay makes a case for an anthropological conceptualization of culture as “semiotic practices” and demonstrates how it adds value to political analyses. “Semiotic practices” refers to the processes of meaning-making in which agents' pr...

The Political System: An Inquiry into the State of Political Science

Political Science and Public Policy

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...

The Political Science of Federalism

This article highlights political science's interest in the distribution of authority between federal and state governments. The authority boundaries are studied (a) as mechanism design problems, where authority is allocated optimally to ac...

Political Science and the Crisis of Authoritarianism

Political science is a discipline in constant danger of fragmentation because of the centrifugal pulls of our subfields and the contradictions in our scientific and humanistic traditions. We are, however, periodically brought together by th...

Political Science and the Enlightenment of Enthusiasm

I provide a narrative of the emergence of an expressly articulated “political science” in the Scottish Enlightenment. Political science was designed by Hume, Smith, and others to advance both a Newtonian method for the study of politics and...

Political Science : An Introduction

PART I. THE BASES OF POLITICS Chapter 1. Politics and Political Science Chapter 2. Theories Chapter 3. Ideologies Chapter 4. States Chapter 5. Constitutions Chapter 6. Regimes PART II. POLITICAL ATTITUDES Chapter 7. Political Culture Chapte...

Political Theory and Political Science

Like Rachel, Jacob's beloved but still childless bride, who asked herself and the Lord each morning, “Am I?,” or “Can I?,” so presidents of this Association on these annual occasions intermittently ask, “Are we a science?,” or “Can we becom...

International Encyclopedia of Political Science

With entries from leading international scholars from around the world, the International Encyclopedia of Political Science provides a definitive, comprehensive picture of all aspects of political life, recognizing its theoretical foundatio...

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

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...