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The Scope of Political Science


The question must sometimes occur to us who are interested in political science, whether it will ever supply general principles for the guidance of statecraft. At present there seems to be little if any connection between them.
H. Ford
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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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Optimizing Survey Questionnaire Design in Political Science

, 2010
This article provides a summary of the literature's suggestions on survey design research. In doing so, it points researchers toward question formats that appear to yield the highest measurement reliability and validity.
Josh Pasek, J. Krosnick
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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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Toward a New Political Science in Italy and West Germany After 1945: Democracy, Politics and Generational Change

2018
This chapter illustrates the relevance of the generational issue for understanding the history of West German and Italian political sciences after 1945. For the Italian case study, D’Ottavio’s analysis points to the connection between the active role played by some scholars in the Resistenza and the adoption, after 1945, of a positivistic approach to ...
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An Introduction to the Politics of Science: Culture, Race, Ethnicity, and the Supplement to the Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 2003
In Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [USDHHS] 2001), the widely anticipated Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (USDHHS 1999), Dr David Satcher declared that clear ethnic disparities exist with regard to mental health service provision and the underlying science base. As a
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Ideology, social science and general facts in late eighteenth-century French political thought

History of European Ideas, 2009
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's attack on the natural jurisprudence of Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf is well known. But what happened to modern natural jurisprudence after Rousseau not very well known. The aim of this article is to try to show how and why it turned into what Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes called “social science” and the bearing that this Rousseau ...
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