Religious Establishment as a Subject of Political Science Reference library
Michael Driessen
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion
...of current global politics. The article concludes by reflecting on the capacity of this body of research to advance our understanding of the “return” of religion to global politics. How and Why Does Political Science Study Religious Establishment? For many years, political science did not actively research the politics of religious establishment or, in general, religion–state arrangements. This lack of scholarly interest in religious establishment is largely the result of the assumptions adopted by much of political science about the declining role of...
The Progress and Pitfalls of Using Survey Experiments in Political Science Reference library
Diana C. Mutz and Eunji Kim
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Political Decision Making
...within the discipline of political science, unless they were field experiments executed in the real political world. Experiments involving interventions in naturally occurring political environments were tolerable, but only political psychologists were likely to view experimentation as more broadly acceptable due to their strong ties to psychology. In political science, survey experiments served as an ideal means of promoting experimental methods in an external-validity-oriented discipline. Survey experiments freed political scientists from using college...
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Lincoln Allison
A Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and International Relations (4 ed.)
... science The study of the state, government, and politics. The idea that the study of politics should be ‘scientific’ has excited controversy for centuries. What is at stake is the nature of our political knowledge, but the content of the argument has varied enormously. For example, in 1741 when Hume published his essay, ‘That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science’, his concerns were very different from those of people who have sought to reduce politics to a science in the twentieth century. Although concerned to some degree to imitate the paradigm of...
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Wilfred M. McClay
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
...with defining political science begins with the term itself. In what sense can the study of politics be called a science? The discipline’s lineage extends back to Aristotle ’s Politics , which embedded a rich account of political life in a more general “scientific” perspective on the natural and human worlds. Yet Aristotle did not mean “science” in the modern sense nor did he envision the study of politics as something independent of what one might call “moral philosophy.” Rejecting Aristotle ’s approach, the founders of modern political science sought to...
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Wilfred M. McClay
The Oxford Companion to United States History
...with defining political science begins with the term itself. In what sense can the study of politics be called a science? The discipline's lineage extends back to Aristotle's Politics which embedded a rich account of political life in a more general “scientific” perspective on the natural and human worlds. Yet Aristotle did not mean “science” in the modern sense, nor did he envision the study of politics as something independent of what one might call “moral philosophy.” Rejecting Aristotle's approach, the founders of modern political science sought to make...
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A Dictionary of Sociology (4 ed.)
...from an initial narrow interest in the machinery of government, political science has broadened its terrain and now overlaps with political sociology in many of its substantive topics and theories. Dennis Kavanagh 's Political Science and Political Behaviour (1983) is a good guide to the American and British literature. In the narrow sense, the study of politics and power involves an examination of the various political institutions, such as the state, government, political parties , interest groups , and other non-government intermediary...
political science
Dictionary of the Social Sciences
...persisted even as political science has grown to include the study of diverse processes, structures, and informal sites of political activity. The “empirical” wing of the discipline includes comparative politics ( see comparative government and comparative politics ), international relations , public policy, political behavior , and public administration. Most countries also treat their national politics as a distinct subfield, as in the United States. Theoretical political science or political theory encompasses the history of political thought, the study...
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Wilfred M. McClay
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History
...Talcott ; Philosophy ; Political Culture ; Political Thought ; Psychology ; Social Sciences ; Sociology ; and Strauss, Leo . ] Bibliography Burgess, John W. The Foundations of Political Science . New York: Columbia University Press, 1933. Ceaser, James . Liberal Democracy and Political Science . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. Crick, Bernard . The American Science of Politics: Its Origins and Conditions . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953. Ross, Dorothy . The Origins of American Social Science . Cambridge, U.K.:...
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The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (2 ed.)
... Science . Political science is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of government and politics, broadly defined. Its concerns include the formal organization and operations of governments, the clash of power and values that is politics, and the processes of authoritative decision making and the administration of public policies. The discipline embraces both normative theories about the nature of justice, freedom, and good governance, and the empirical study of actual institutions and practices. At its most fundamental level political science...
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Abdul Rashid Moten
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics
...al kalām (On Political Science, Science of Jurisprudence, and Science of Kalām ) is in the arena of a manual on political science. To al-Ghazālī, political science deals with the proper order for administering the affairs of men. Such an order is derived from books revealed by God to His prophets. Politics is a science that aims at ensuring man's welfare in this world and bliss in the next. This “happiness” can be attained only if the government is based upon religious sciences and political sciences. Al-Māwardī conceives of political science rather narrowly...
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Oxford Companion to Australian Politics
...political science was firmly established as a distinct academic discipline in the Australian academy. From modest beginnings with disparate offerings in the interwar period political science had become one of the major academic disciplines in the general field of social sciences and humanities, and since the late 1980s it has established a strong research profile in a competitive funding environment. The discipline of political science in Australia is thriving but its professional profile has been subdued in comparison to other prominent social sciences such...
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Philippe C. Schmitter
The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics
...was formed to emancipate political from the other social sciences in this world region. There also exists an African Association of Political Science (AASPS), since 1973 , and an Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA), since 2001 . The government of the People's Republic of China has indicated its intention to make political science a priority in university education, which probably means that by 2020 , there will be more Chinese than American political scientists. Micro-Foundations. Every science, whether physical or human,...
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Philippe C. Schmitter
The Oxford Companion to International Relations
...(ALACIP) was formed to emancipate political from the other social sciences in this world region. There also exists an African Association of Political Science (AASPS), since 1973, and an Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA), since 2001. The government of the People's Republic of China has indicated its intention to make political science a priority in university education, which probably means that by 2020, there will be more Chinese than American political scientists. Micro-Foundations. Every science, whether physical or human, rests...
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Ovamir Anjum
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam
... Science Political science, as distinct from political philosophy, theory, or theology, aspires to be a descriptive and empirical field, and thus, to speak of Islamic political science is merely to speak of the set of discourses concerning governance, statecraft, and the nature of the political world generally that materialized in Islamic societies over the centuries. What justifies the qualifier “Islamic” is the fact that the normative field, the worldview or the theology, of a civilization to an extent shapes not only the normative idiom of political...
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The Oxford Companion to American Law
... Science and Law . Law was once central to the study of government. Scholars of “public law” in the academic departments that predated the discipline of political science taught American politics in legal terms (constitutional law and administrative law) to college students for generations. They employed historical and case analysis to teach about the practices of government and they lectured on the nature of politics. Institutions were the core curriculum and doctrine was their methodology. Critical scholars like Charles Beard tied the political...
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The New Oxford Companion to Law
... science and law The study of politics goes back more than two millennia to the time of Artistotle ( 384–322 bce ) and beyond. But political science , as a branch of the social sciences, is a modern academic discipline, and an eclectic one. It draws inspiration from many intellectual traditions, including history, philosophy, economics, sociology—and law. Law is inextricably bound up with the world of politics—and hence, with the academic study of that world. Constitutions and rules of public law supply the ground rules of political practice and are...
political economy of science Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
... economy of science . During the past four centuries, the political economy of science—the nature and sources of its funding and the pertinent institutional arrangements—has changed primarily, though not exclusively, according to the political regime under which science has been pursued. In medieval Europe, the Church had created what Jacques Barzun once called the “House of Intellect”—those interested in scholarly subjects, including the phenomena of nature, pursued their interests in the universities of the time, usually as ordained clergy or as...
Dialogue on Political Science Reference library
Peter Bell
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
...on Political Science ( Dialogus de Scientia Politica ) Philosophical dialogue in the Platonic tradition, dating from late in Justinian I ’s reign. Only one and a half out of an original six books survive. It reflects the range of learning, Latin and Greek , then available in Constantinople , and is written from a distinctive perspective implicitly critical of the emperor . Book 4 outlines the responsibilities of a commander and explains why one must not favour infantry over cavalry , or antagonize civilian populations in war zones. Book 5...
Political Science and Peace Focus Reference library
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace
... Science and Peace Focus . Theories of peace in political science typically look for the reasons why wars occur and for corresponding ways to prevent or limit future wars. This entry focuses on what political scientists mean by the term peace and what different theories have to say about whether and how peace can be achieved. What Is Peace? Peace and war can be viewed either as conditions inside a nation-state or as relations between two or more nation-states. War within a single nation-state is typically called “civil war” and may or may not involve...
