Who Runs? Canadian Federal and Ontario Provincial Candidates from 1867 to 2019

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Semra Sevi
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Descriptive Representation ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Research And Teaching

Abstract Who runs and is elected is one of the most fundamental questions in political science as it pertains to the issue of descriptive representation. Despite the importance of this issue, until recently there were no longitudinal datasets on candidates in Canadian elections. This article presents two novel datasets including information on all candidates who ran in Canadian federal and Ontario provincial elections from 1867 to 2019. I present how these data were collected and how they can be used to gain new insights. I expect these data will be a valuable resource to Canadian political scientists for both research and teaching purposes.

scholarly journals Whom is political science for?

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 4-8
Author(s):  
Andrea Theocharis ◽  
Marcus Graetsch
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Political Science ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The State ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Status ◽  
Internet Discussion

We all study political science, but - what do we actually do here anyway? This essay expresses our thoughts about our subject. The everyday life in University doesn’t seem to give enough space for questioning what is this all about. Maybe a debate on that issue does not exist extensively because of fears of the loss of entitlement. The aim of this essay is to support the heightening of student’s awareness about the status quo of research and teaching in political science as we can judge it from our modest experiences. Trying to get to the basis of such a problem is not easy. The things here written are surely not the state of the art, but they could shine a better light on the problem what had been called the 'politics of political science' in an earlier Internet discussion on the IAPSS website. This paper should be understood as a start for a discussion, where we all can express our surely different experiences and ideas.

A Note on Behavioralists and Post-Behavioralists in Contemporary Political Science

1972 ◽  
Vol 5 (03) ◽  
pp. 271-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kendall L. Baker ◽  
Sami G. Hajjar ◽  
Alan Evan Schenker
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Mail Survey ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Major Event ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mountain West ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
New Political Science

In 1969 David Easton argued that a new revolution was “underway in American political science.” This revolution, which he labelled the post-behavioral revolution, is motivated by a “deep dissatisfaction with political research and teaching, especially of the kind that is striving to convert the study of politics into a more rigorously scientific discipline modelled on the methodology of the natural sciences.” Specifically, post-behavioralists, according to Easton, attack the abstractness, irrelevance, “methodological purity” and conservatism of the existing literature, and argue that political scientists as well as the associations of which they are a part, must take a more active role in the solution of contemporary social problems. In short, post-behavioralists seek to “help create a ‘new political science’ that will not be trivial or misleading.” But, what is the nature of the support within the profession for this goal? In other words, what kinds of attitudes do American political scientists hold about this new revolution? In addition, what are their views on the behavioral revolution, the other major event in the recent history of the discipline?To answer these questions we recently conducted a mail survey of 176 political scientists in the Mountain West (i.e. Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.) Our questionnaire included twenty three items dealing with professional and related issues.

scholarly journals 2013 APSA Africa Workshop: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (04) ◽  
pp. 885-887
Author(s):  
Andrew Stinson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Research Networks ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Support Research

The sixth annual APSA Africa Workshop was conducted in partnership with the Institute for Governance and Development (IGD) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, from July 1 to 12. The event is part of a multiyear initiative to support political science research and teaching in Sub-Saharan Africa through a series of residential political science workshops at African universities and research institutions. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Africa Workshops program is a major component of APSA's efforts to engage with political science communities outside the United States and support research networks linking US scholars with their colleagues overseas.

scholarly journals Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and the Transgendered in Political Science: Report on a Discipline-Wide Survey

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (01) ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Julie Novkov ◽  
Scott Barclay
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Lgbt Issues ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Lgbt Individuals

AbstractThis article reviews the results of a discipline-wide survey concerning lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and the transgendered in the discipline. We find that both research and teaching on LGBT topics have made some headway into the discipline, and that political scientists largely accept that LGBT issues can be fundamentally political and are worth studying and teaching for that reason. Nonetheless, troubling questions about discrimination both against those who conduct research concerning LBGT issues and LGBT individuals themselves remain.

scholarly journals Culture Collections as Hidden Sources of Microbial Biomolecules and Biodiversity

Diversity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 264
Author(s):  
Angelina Lo Giudice ◽  
Carmen Rizzo
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Diversity ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Culture Collections ◽  
Biotechnological Potential ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Pure Cultures

The application of modern advanced techniques in molecular biology is revealing unexpectedly high levels of microbial diversity and complexity. However, the invisible loss of microbial diversity in the environment deriving, for example, from global changes and anthropogenic activities, is not really perceived. In this context, culture collections worldwide have become a valuable resource for the sustainable use of microbial diversity and its conservation. They provide pure cultures and genetic materials that are required for a number of research and teaching purposes, as well as for bioprospecting aims and their subsequent exploitation in biotechnological fields. This Special Issue has been launched with the aim of showcasing the diversity and biotechnological potential of microorganisms (e.g., Bacteria, Archaea, cyanobacteria, microalgae, fungi, yeasts, and protozoa) belonging to culture collections kept worldwide.

Political Science and the Public Sphere Today

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 366-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rogers M. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Scientific Rigor ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Cumulative Knowledge

The potential of political science to contribute to debates over public issues has long been hindered by tensions in the discipline's goals of achieving scientific rigor while also serving America's democracy. Those tensions have been exacerbated by recent trends in American higher education working to separate research and teaching activities and to rely more on external donors to finance both. Collectively these trends suggest that political science faces growing pressures to steer away from unpopular topics in both research and teaching, and to abandon the traditional teacher/scholar model of academic careers. It is advisable for the discipline both to seek more actively to promote engagement between different forms of political science scholarship in order to achieve cumulative knowledge that is pertinent to important political issues, and to preserve and strengthen its commitments to effective teaching about politics.

Internationale Politische Ökonomie

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan A. Schirm
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Politische Ökonomie ◽  
Research And Teaching

In this volume, Stefan A. Schirm provides an introduction to international political economy (IPE), starting with the field’s traditional theories and progressing to today’s policy areas (globalisation, the financial crisis and regional cooperation). He focuses on the foundations of IPE and on conducting an empirical analysis based on theory. In this way, he lays the groundwork for the systematic integration of IPE into political science research and teaching.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document