Political Socialization Theory, Research, and Application. History and Analysis of Forty Years of the Research Committee on Political Socialization and Education of the International Political Science Association: 1997-2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1+2-2017) ◽  
pp. 34-80
Author(s):  
Henk Dekker ◽  
Daniel B. German ◽  
Christ’l De Landtsheer
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Socialization Theory ◽  
International Comparative ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Many ◽  
Theory Research ◽  
Science Association

The Research Committee on Political Socialization and Education of the International Political Science Association celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2019. The RC was recognized by IPSA in 1979 following a solid and successful pioneering phase in the 1960s and ‘70s. The RC flourished with a full board during 40 years, more than fifty RCPSE panels at IPSA World Congresses, more than thirty RCPSE conferences in thirteen countries, more than 60 RCPSE sponsored books, and its RCPSE journal during 27 years. Research highlights include four international comparative political socialization studies and several political socialization panel studies. For more than thirty different political orientations and behaviours it has been investigated whether political socialization contributes to the explanation of the variance therein. Research focused on eight political socialisation agents and about thirty specific political socializers in these domains. Forty years of research has yielded a lot of insights and an auspicious theory development. Some topics deserve much more attention than they have received so far while new political, economic and social developments require a retest of what was discovered about political socialization in the past and a study of the many new ways, forms and contents of political socialization at the present time and in the future.

Validating a Measure of Perceived Parent–Child Political Socialization

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 623-637
Author(s):  
Francisco I. Pedraza ◽  
Brittany N. Perry
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
Parent Influence ◽  
Political Learning ◽  
Socialization Theory ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Socialization Experience ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Measurement Validity

A growing body of research in political science is influenced by conceptual advances in socialization theory which posit that children can influence adults’ learning across a wide range of topics. The concept of bidirectional influence describes socialization led by one’s parents and children. One outstanding need in the effort to import this concept to political socialization research is a measure that captures the influence of both parents and children. We meet this need with a measure of relative influence from both parents and children as sources for political learning. We provide evidence of measurement validity using separate samples of Asians, Blacks, Latinos, and Whites. Our findings suggest that our metric is portable across groups, and that the range of what individuals recall about their familial socialization experience includes more child-to-parent influence than existing studies suggest.

What next for the studies of Political Science as a discipline? A tentative research agenda

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thibaud Boncourt
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
European Studies ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Past President ◽  
Current State ◽  
Virtual Meeting ◽  
Science Association

This text is an edited version of the opening remarks that Thibaud Boncourt, Past President of the Research Committee 33 (The Study of Political Science as a Discipline) of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) and associate professor at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique (CESSP), gave at the special panel “The Future of the Studies of Political Science as a Discipline” sponsored by IPSA-RC33 at the 7th international interdisciplinary conference of political research SCOPE: Science of Politics (University of Bucharest, 20-24 September 2021, www.scienceofpolitics.eu). The event was organized and hosted by the Centre for the International Cooperation and Development Studies (IDC) of the Department of Comparative Governance and European Studies, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest, and gathered participants from several countries on all continents, via a virtual meeting. The aim of the panel was to contribute to the global conversation on the current state of political science as a discipline, as well as to discuss the practical means through which IPSA-RC33 can contribute to it and to support the work of political scientists worldwide.

Perestroika and the Journals

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (04) ◽  
pp. 733-734 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory J. Kasza
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
American Political Science Review ◽  
Science Review ◽  
The Many ◽  
Regional Associations ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association

It is fitting to measure Perestroika's impact through the contents of the leading political science association journals. The original Perestroika manifesto railed at theAmerican Political Science Review(APSR), and many subsequent Perestroika protests condemned the skewed contents of theAPSR, theAmerican Journal of Political Science(AJPS), and theJournal of Politics. Large national and regional associations publish and pay for these journals. The position of Perestroika has been that their contents should represent the many types of research that political scientists are doing, which was not the case when the movement began.

Crises and Sequences in Collective Theory Development

1975 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 979-994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert T. Holt ◽  
John E. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Reward Structure ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Empirical Generalization ◽  
The 1960S

Since 1954, the Committee on Comparative Politics has provided leadership in the comparative field, and one of its central objectives has been to construct a theory of political development. The books in the series that were published in the 1960s lacked rigorous design, although they did provide data and low-level generalizations which could be used in the theory-building task. This essay focuses primarily on Crises and Sequences in Political Development, which is authored solely by Committee members and reports on the results of their theoretical work thus far. The Committee takes the “intuitive empirical generalization” approach to theory development—in contrast with systematic empirical generalization and the analytic-deductive procedure. It is unlikely, however, that the Committee's approach will lead to the formulation of a coherent set of interrelated propositions within which empirical phenomena can be explained. But the Committee's work is not atypical of the theoretical literature in political science, which reflects the reward structure of the discipline. The building of powerful theories will be facilitated when emphasis is placed on the development of clearly falsifiable propositions rather than on the development of loose conceptual frameworks.

War-Time Priorities in Research: A Statement by the Research Committee of the American Political Science Association

1943 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 505-514
Author(s):  
Ernest S. Griffith ◽  
Phillips Bradley ◽  
Robert Leigh ◽  
Karl Loewenstein ◽  
Joseph McLean ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Critical Writing ◽  
War Effort ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association

In the report of the Association's Committee on War-time Services occurs the following passage: “It seems to the Committee that the customary individualism of the profession is a luxury that cannot be unimpaired in war-time; political scientists must not go through the war with a business-as-usual attitude toward research and critical writing. The crises upon the nation and awaiting the nation demand that the profession recognize priorities in its scholarly work…. Students, mature and immature, should know what men of affairs consider to be the more crucial issues … The Committee … does ask … that the profession be given leadership in determining what to do ….”The Research Committee of the Association considered this challenge and sought an answer from those members of the profession who had temporarily left their academic halls and plunged into the war effort in Washington. This group gave generously of their time and thought to the matter. The Committee's own function became merely that of a reporter or synthesizer of the views thus expressed. It is this synthesis which this statement incorporates. The suggestions are deliberately not attributed to any one individual. In the first place, many suggestions were made by more than one person; in the second place, the total pattern is even more intriguing than the individual suggestions.

The European Alternatives: the Energy Policy of the European Community

1977 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-410
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
European Community ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
European Universities ◽  
First Time ◽  
Science Association

THE CONFERENCE ON ‘THE EUROPEAN ALTERNATIVE’ ORGANIZED BY THE Research Committee on European Unification of the International Political Science Association, in collaboration with the European Commission and the Europcan Parliament, was held on 9, 10 and 11 June at the headquarters of the European Commission. It was attended by high oficials of the European Commission and Parliamcnt, the rapporteurs, and by tcams from ten Western universities, the contre-rapporteurs. Indeed, one of the original characteristics of the Conference, and of the work which it produced, was that for the first time the experts of the European Commission and the European Parliament put forward, in a joint research, their views on the problems with which they deal officially. These views have been analysed by experts from European universities working on the same project. The fact that the Conference was able, in each case and in general, to reach harmonious common conclusions is highly significant.

scholarly journals Changing sovereignty and changing borders: vox dei or vox populi?

2003 ◽  
Vol 70 (418/419) ◽  
pp. 79-83
Author(s):  
Jean Laponce
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Political Science ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Main Research ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
The University ◽  
Science Association

The author is professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. One of his main research interests is the study of the relation between territory and ethnicity (see The Protection of Minorities, University of California Press, 1961; Languages and their Territories, University of Toronto Press, 1987; Sovereignty and Referendums, UBC Institute of International Relations, 2001). He is a member of the research committee on Political Geography of the International Political Science Association, a committee he founded in 1975 and co-chaired with Jean Gottmann.

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