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Showing the Other Side: What Kinds of Empathy Should Political Science Teach?

open access: yes, 2023
In 2006, then-Senator Barack Obama implored undergraduates at Northwestern to cultivate empathy, and called on the country to address its “empathy deficit.” Empathy is being taken seriously in politics and political science—but what exactly do we mean by empathy?
Colin Brown, Chelsea Kaufman
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The Disposable Blog: Using the Weblog to Facilitate Classroom Learning and Communications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This article describes two case studies: one is from a graduate course in social work practice evaluation taught by the second author; the other is from an undergraduate political science course in media and politics taught by the first author.
Fast, Jonathan, Pimpare, Stephen
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Dancing to the Partisan Beat: A First Analysis of Political Communication on TikTok

open access: yes, 2020
TikTok is a video-sharing social networking service, whose popularity is increasing rapidly. It was the world's second-most downloaded app in 2019. Although the platform is known for having users posting videos of themselves dancing, lip-syncing, or ...
Alexandra Alper Greg Roumeliotis Echo Wang   +14 more
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Synergies in Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation: Decomposing the Interaction Between Nature Parks and Agri‐Environment Schemes

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The History of Political Science in Slovenia

open access: yesAnali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva, 2008
Political science in Slovenia has started its development as part of legal studies.The first book that can be considered political science literature is “Ocrt povijesti političkih ideja” by Joža Goričar.
Igor Lukšić
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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The other Cambridge analytics: Early ‘artificial intelligence’ in American Political Science

open access: yes, 2020
Harold Lasswell, quoted in a 1961 issue of Harper’s Magazine, described the Simulmatics Corporation as the “A-bomb of the social sciences.” Simulmatics had attracted his attention after publicizing its use of computer modeling to predict public opinion for the 1960 Kennedy Presidential Campaign.
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Rancière and the poetics of the social sciences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article reviews the significance of Jacques Rancière’s work for methodological debates in the social sciences, and education specifically. It explores the implications of framing methodology as an aesthetic endeavour, rather than as the applied ...
Pelletier, Caroline
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Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Migration as an area of political science research

open access: yesPerspective Politice, 2015
The aim of the present article is to indicate the importance of migration in political science research. Compared with other scientific disciplines, political science took interest in the recognition of migration processes relatively late, not ...
Rafal RACZYNSKI
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