Biology and Political Science. By Robert H. Blank and Samuel M. Hines, Jr. New York: Routledge, 2001. 183p. $80.00.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 798-799
Author(s):  
John Strate
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Equal Importance ◽  
Political Science Journals

What is biopolitics? The authors are well-published scholars in this field, and their answer to this question supplied in this book should give hope to those who are disappointed with the direction and progress of political science. Many of the questions about politics that biopolitics addresses were first asked by ancient political philosophers, such as Aristotle. The field of biopolitics, however, is only 30 or 40 years old. Over that time the field has strengthened its institutional base. Of equal importance, it has produced a growing body of scholarship in such fields as political theory, comparative politics and international relations, methodology, political behavior and decision making, and public administration and public policy. Unfortunately, largely because the field is interdisciplinary, only a small portion of this scholarship has been published in the major political science journals, so that most political scientists and other social scientists are largely unaware of what this field is and what it has to offer.

Introduction to comparative politics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Caramani
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Empirical Science ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
Comprehensive Introduction

This text provides a comprehensive introduction to comparative politics. Comparative politics is an empirical science that deals primarily with domestic politics. It is one of the three main subfields of political science, alongside international relations and political theory. Comparative politics has three goals: to describe differences and similarities between political systems and their features; to explain these differences; and to predict which factors may cause specific outcomes. This edition compares the most important features of national political systems and contains chapters on integration, globalization, and promotion of democracy in non-Western parts of the world. This introductory chapter explains what comparative politics is and discusses its substance as well as method.

The Diffusion of Policy Diffusion Research in Political Science

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 673-701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin R. Graham ◽  
Charles R. Shipan ◽  
Craig Volden
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Policy Diffusion ◽  
Network Analyses ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Science Journals

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 across the subfields of American politics, comparative politics and international relations. Then, based on a survey of the literature, the who, what, when, where, how and why of policy diffusion are addressed in order to identify and assess some of the main contributions and omissions in current scholarship. It is argued that studies of diffusion would benefit from paying more attention to developments in other subfields and from taking a more systematic approach to tackling the questions of when and how policy diffusion takes place.

Dissertations

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (02) ◽  
pp. 461-476
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Philosophy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations ◽  
Science Departments

APSA is pleased to include here the names of individuals who have completed their doctoral dissertations at political science departments in the United States in 2012. The list is based on data collected in the APSA member database and includes information reported by both individuals and departments. Dissertations are listed by fields of interest as labeled by APSA, American politics, comparative politics, international relations, methodology, public administration, political philosophy and theory, public lawand courts, and public policy. (See also, table 1.)

Introduction to Comparative Politics

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Daniele Caramani
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Empirical Science ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
Comprehensive Introduction

This text provides a comprehensive introduction to comparative politics. Comparative politics is an empirical science that deals primarily with domestic politics. It is one of the three main subfields of political science, alongside international relations and political theory. Comparative politics has three goals: to describe differences and similarities between political systems and their features; to explain these differences; and to predict which factors may cause specific outcomes. This edition compares the most important features of national political systems and contains chapters on integration, globalization, and promotion of democracy in non-Western parts of the world. This introductory chapter explains what comparative politics is, and discusses its substance as well as method.

scholarly journals Geographical Coverage in Political Science Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Matthew Charles Wilson ◽  
Carl Henrik Knutsen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
Political Science Journals

We describe and analyze patterns in the geographical focus of political science research across more than a century. Using a new database of titles and abstracts from 27,690 publications in eight major political science journals from their inception, we demonstrate that, historically, political scientists concentrated their studies on a limited number of countries situated in North America and Western Europe. While a strong focus on Western countries remains today, we detail how this picture has changed somewhat over recent decades, with political science research becoming increasingly “globalized.” Still, several countries have received almost no attention, and geographical citation patterns differ by subfield. For example, we find indications of a greater focus on the United States and large Western European countries in international relations than in comparative politics publications. We also analyze several correlates of a country being the focus of political science research, including the country’s predominant languages, income, population size, democracy level, and conflict experience, and show systematic variation in the geographical focus of research. This unequal focus, we argue, has important implications regarding the applicability of extant descriptive and causal claims, as well as the development of theories in political science.

Toward a Political Science Discipline

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID D. LAITIN
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Structural Basis ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Science Discipline ◽  
Political Inquiry ◽  
Economic Reasoning

Harry Eckstein's 1973 classic article “Authority Patterns: A Structural Basis for Political Inquiry” is critically reviewed. In that article, Eckstein proposes that the scope of politics can be ascertained through a taxonomic exercise that he labels progressive differentiation. In so doing, he delimits political study to the systematic analysis of authority patterns, which he defines as the “set of asymmetric relations among hierarchically ordered members of a social unit that involves the direction of the unit.” This taxonomy is provocative in that it rules out of the discipline's domain standard fare within contemporary political science, concerning exchange among equals (virtually all of economic reasoning) and exchange between states (virtually all of international relations). An alternative delimitation is proposed, building on other insights from Eckstein's corpus but taking off from current research practice. Four subfields—political theory, comparative politics, democratic institutions, and international relations—are defined in such a way as to give coherence to the political science discipline.

International Relations an a World of Revolutionary Change

1949 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Easton Rothwell
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
New York ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Carnegie Corporation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wartime Experience

A PROJECT of collaborative research concerning major world trends affecting international relations has been launched this year at the Hoover Institute and Library. This project has been made possible by a three-year grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.1Beneath the original planning for the project lay the conviction born of wartime experience, that a deeper understanding of the dynamics of international relations could be obtained by pooling the contributions of the social sciences and related disciplines and by taking account of practical experience in the international field. The need for new and more penetrating approaches to international relations had been put by Arnold Toynbee in a few challenging words: “There is nothing to prevent our Western Civilization from following historical precedent, if it chooses, by committing social suicide. But we are not doomed to make history repeat itself; it is open to us through our own efforts, to give history, in our case, some new unprecedented turn.” Natural scientists, as well as social scientists are agreed that any “new unprecedented turn” must be sought in deeper understanding of relations among people and among nations.

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