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General Systems Methodology and Political Science

1978
As part of an earlier presentation to this congress Cavallo and Klir characterized the situation regarding the role of general systems research with respect to the social sciences. Fundamental to their presentation was an attitude toward epistemology and science which places primary emphasis on the process-related aspects of research and knowledge ...
Eduard Ziegenhagen, Roger Cavallo
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Writing About Political Science and Politics for a General Audience: A How (and Why) Guide for Academics [PDF]

Political Communication, 2017
Writing about political science and politics for a non-academic audience is rewarding and challenging in roughly equal measures.
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Science and Politics in Britain: The Paymaster-General

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1952
Those who are interested in seeing scientific knowledge brought to bear on national policy have followed the career of Lord Cherwell with great interest. An intimate friend and counsellor of Churchill's, he was his constant adviser during the war years.
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Toward a New Generation of Systems Models in Political Science

Polity, 1972
Using data mostly from American politics and comparative studies, Professor Penn argues that general systems theory "is often regarded as appropriate as the most general framework for political science. " But he feels also that we need to be far more careful and sophisticated in our use of it.
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Beyond Generic Hybridity: Nalo Hopkinson and the Politics of Science Fiction

Canadian Literature, 2017
Canadian Literature, No 228-9 (2016): Emerging Scholars ...
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Where is Knowledge Generated? On the Productivity and Impact of Political Science Departments in Latin America [PDF]

European Political Science, 2012
Clear rules that encourage meritocracy, and that include the evaluation of scholarly productivity, are slowly and unevenly taking hold in academic life in Latin America. While some countries have official rankings of political science departments, others rely only on informal assessments.
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The Political Sciences Routledge Library Editions: Political Science vol 46

2013
Social science is a social activity as well as a method of discovery. The researchers’ values and politics colour their work and so do their choices of scientific method. This book is about both – the technical effects of values and the political effects of technique. The author reports what social scientists and historians actually do.
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Political Science's Contribition to General Education at Liberal Arts Colleges

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
What does political science contribute to common core and general education in liberal arts colleges? Although our discipline pays some attention to curriculum choice and design for our own discipline as a major, hardly any systematic study of what political science contributes to the undergraduate experience writ large has been done.
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Local Government Observation: A Format for a General Education Political Science Class

Teaching Political Science, 1979
Assuming students acquire the habit of democratic citizenship better through a semester-long project than a shorter unit, such a framework has been embedded in the requirements of the introductory American government class when taught at a community college. A local government unit evolved which required students to attend meetings and collect official
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The Domain of Inquiry in Political Science: General Lessons from the Study of China

Polity, 1989
The study of Chinese politics has been faulted for its shortcomings as social science, but for the most part its critics have ignored what this article argues is the crucial methodological weakness: the absence of an appropriately defined domain of inquiry. The author finds institutional definitions of domains of inquiry inadequate, shows how they have
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