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Author : Carl Kalvelage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780913530375
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Bridges to Knowledge in Political Science written by Carl Kalvelage and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Political Science Association. Annual Meeting
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814209343
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Political Knowledge written by American Political Science Association. Annual Meeting and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the last century, political scientists have been moved by two principal purposes. First, they have sought to understand and explain political phenomena in a way that is both theoretically and empirically grounded. Second, they have analyzed matters of enduring public interest, whether in terms of public policy and political action, fidelity between principle and practice in the organization and conduct of government, or the conditions of freedom, whether of citizens or of states. Many of the central advances made in the field have been prompted by a desire to improve both the quality and our understanding of political life. Nowhere is this tendency more apparent than in research on comparative politics and international relations, fields in which concerns for the public interest have stimulated various important insights. This volume systematically analyzes the major developments within the fields of comparative politics and international relations over the past three decades. Each chapter is composed of a core paper that addresses the major puzzles, conversations, and debates that have attended major areas of concern and inquiry within the discipline. These papers examine and evaluate the intellectual evolution and natural history of major areas of political inquiry and chart particularly promising trajectories, puzzles, and concerns for future work. Each core paper is accompanied by a set of shorter commentaries that engage the issues it takes up, thus contributing to an ongoing and lively dialogue among key figures in the field.
Author : American Political Science Association. Meeting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Political Knowledge written by American Political Science Association. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the last century, political scientists have been moved by two principal purposes. First, they have sought to understand and explain political phenomena in a way that is both theoretically and empirically grounded. Second, they have analyzed matters of enduring public interest, whether in terms of public policy and political action, fidelity between principle and practice in the organization and conduct of government, or the conditions of freedom, whether of citizens or of states. Many of the central advances made in the field have been prompted by a desire to improve both the quality and our understanding of political life. Nowhere is this tendency more apparent than in research on American politics, a field in which concerns for the public interest have stimulated various important insights. This volume systematically analyzes the major developments within the broad field of American politics over the past three decades. Each chapter is composed of a core paper that addresses the major puzzles, conversations, and debates that have attended major areas of concern and inquiry within the discipline. These papers examine and evaluate the intellectual evolution and "natural history" of major areas of political inquiry and chart particularly promising trajectories, puzzles, and concerns for future work Each core paper is accompanied by a set of shorter commentaries that engage the issues it takes up, thus contributing to an ongoing and lively dialogue among key figures in the field.
Author : Johannes Glückler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319753282
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Knowledge and Institutions written by Johannes Glückler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, entrepreneurship, art and cultural heritage, often at regional scales across Europe and North America. Rooted in the disciplines of management and organization studies, sociology, geography, political science, and economics the contributors all take comprehensive approaches to carve out the specific contextuality of institutions as well as their impact on societal outcomes. Not only does this book offer detailed insights into current debates in institutional theory, it also provides background for scholars, students, and professionals at the intersection between regional development, policy-making, and regulation.
Author : Jeffrey Friedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415620574
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Political Knowledge written by Jeffrey Friedman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since at least the time of Plato, political scientists and philosophers have been concerned about what citizens and rulers should know if they are to be governed and govern well. Moreover, the increasing complexity of modern societies has revivified thinking about and around the critical concept of political knowledge. Vital questions arise, such as: does effective democracy demand an informed electorate? is such an aspiration realistic, given the size and reach of modern governments? how can electorates compensate for their ignorance, given the vast amount of information that might be necessary to make sound political judgements? or is such ignorance rational This new collection from Routledge brings together canonical and cutting-edge research to interrogate these and other issues. Edited by leading scholars, Political Knowledge assembles in four volumes the best and most important scholarship, from the ancients to the work of the deliberative democrats. The collection also gathers the key survey research, from the Columbia and Michigan schools down to the present. Further, it makes sense of the main lines of normative debate about these findings, and addresses the various causal and theoretical understandings of political knowledge and ignorance, while illuminating directions for future research. With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Political Knowledge is an essential work of reference. The collection will be particularly useful as an essential database allowing scattered and often fugitive material from less accessible books and specialized journals to be easily located. It will also be welcomed as a crucial tool permitting rapid access to less familiar and sometimes overlooked texts. For researchers, students, and policymakers, it is a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.
Author : Inmaculada de Melo-Martín
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190869240
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Fight Against Doubt written by Inmaculada de Melo-Martín and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lack of public support for climate change policies and refusals to vaccinate children are just two alarming illustrations of the impacts of dissent about scientific claims. Dissent can lead to confusion, false beliefs, and widespread public doubt about highly justified scientific evidence. Even more dangerously, it has begun to corrode the very authority of scientific consensus and knowledge. Deployed aggressively and to political ends, some dissent can intimidate scientists, stymie research, and lead both the public and policymakers to oppose important public policies firmly rooted in science. To criticize dissent is, however, a fraught exercise. Skepticism and fearless debate are key to the scientific process, making it both vital and incredibly difficult to characterize and identify dissent that is problematic in its approach and consequences. Indeed, as de Melo-Martín and Intemann show, the criteria commonly proposed as means of identifying inappropriate dissent are flawed and the strategies generally recommended to tackle such dissent are not only ineffective but could even make the situation worse. The Fight Against Doubt proposes that progress on this front can best be achieved by enhancing the trustworthiness of the scientific community and by being more realistic about the limits of science when it comes to policymaking. It shows that a richer understanding of the context in which science operates is needed to disarm problematic dissent and those who deploy it. This, the authors argue, is the best way forward, rather than diagnosing the many instances of wrong-headed dissent.
Author : Frank Fischer
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822380285
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Citizens, Experts, and the Environment written by Frank Fischer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tension between professional expertise and democratic governance has become increasingly significant in Western politics. Environmental politics in particular is a hotbed for citizens who actively challenge the imposition of expert theories that ignore forms of local knowledge that can help to relate technical facts to social values. Where information ideologues see the modern increase in information as capable of making everyone smarter, others see the emergence of a society divided between those with and those without knowledge. Suggesting realistic strategies to bridge this divide, Fischer calls for meaningful nonexpert involvement in policymaking and shows how the deliberations of ordinary citizens can help solve complex social and environmental problems by contributing local contextual knowledge to the professionals’ expertise. While incorporating theoretical critiques of positivism and methodology, he also offers hard evidence to demonstrate that the ordinary citizen is capable of a great deal more participation than is generally recognized. Popular epidemiology in the United States, the Danish consensus conference, and participatory resource mapping in India serve as examples of the type of inquiry he proposes, showing how the local knowledge of citizens is invaluable to policy formation. In his conclusion Fischer examines the implications of the approach for participatory democracy and the democratization of contemporary deliberative structures. This study will interest political scientists, public policy practitioners, sociologists, scientists, environmentalists, political activists, urban planners, and public administrators along with those interested in understanding the relationship between democracy and science in a modern technological society.
Author : James N. Danziger
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780205700448
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Understanding the Political World written by James N. Danziger and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MySearchLab provides students with a complete understanding of the research process so they can complete research projects confidently and efficiently. Students and instructors with an internet connection can visit www.MySearchLab.com and receive immediate access to thousands of full articles from the EBSCO ContentSelect database. In addition, MySearchLab offers extensive content on the research process itself--including tips on how to navigate and maximize time in the campus library, a step-by-step guide on writing a research paper, and instructions on how to finish an academic assignment with endnotes and bibliography.- "Understanding the Political World" offers a comparative perspective on how politics works at the global, national, group, and individual level. Focusing on how fundamental concepts in political science relate to real political events, this bestselling text surveys political behavior, systems, and processes throughout the world and asks students to evaluate and apply this knowledge. Through an engaging writing style, numerous examples, and the instructive use of cartoons and photographs, "Understanding the Political World" encourages students to think like political scientists and to critically examine new and enduring political realities and challenges.
Author : Colin Elman
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262550390
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Bridges and Boundaries written by Colin Elman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-04-13 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridges and Boundaries offers a conversation between what might loosely be described as traditionalist diplomatic and military historians, and political scientists who employ qualitative case study methods to examine international relations. The book opens with a series of chapters discussing differences, commonalities, and opportunities for cross-fertilization between the two disciplines.To help focus the dialogue on real events and research, the volume then revisits three empirical topics that have been studied at length by members of both disciplines: British hegemony in the nineteenth century; diplomacy in the interwar period and the causes of World War II; and the origins and course of the Cold War. For each of these subjects, a political scientist, a historian, and a commentator reflect on how disciplinary "guild rules" have shaped the study of international events. The book closes with incisive overviews by Robert Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder. Bridges and Boundaries explores how historians and political scientists can learn from one another and illustrates the possibilities that arise when open-minded scholars from different disciplines sit down to talk.
Author : Jeffrey Friedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415620567
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Political Knowledge written by Jeffrey Friedman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since at least the time of Plato, political scientists and philosophers have been concerned about what citizens and rulers should know if they are to be governed' and govern' well. Moreover, the increasing complexity of modern societies has revivified thinking about and around the critical concept of political knowledge. Vital questions arise, such as:does effective democracy demand an informed electorate?is such an aspiration realistic, given the size and reach of modern governments? how can electorates compensate for their ignorance, given
Author : University of Michigan. Department of Political Science
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Status and Prospects of Political Science as a Discipline written by University of Michigan. Department of Political Science and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas T. Taylor
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 145664095X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)
Download or read book Rebuilding Democracy written by Thomas T. Taylor and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unravel the Extremes: A Journey Towards a More Balanced Democracy Attention: In an era where political discourse is increasingly polarized, Thomas T. Taylor provides a beacon of hope. This book is a must-read for anyone concerned about rising extreme elements in American politics and yearning for a more balanced, inclusive democracy. Interest: Taylor, known as "Mr. Friendly" in his hometown, has been a stalwart in local politics since his early twenties. He brings a unique perspective with a rich academic background in social psychology and political science. This book culminates his years of experience, theoretical knowledge, and personal insights. Desire: "Rebuilding Democracy: Strategies for Countering Political Extremism" is more than just a book; it's a call to action. It offers hundreds of actionable items readers can implement to make a difference. It encourages readers to adopt multiple viewpoints, challenge their biases, and engage with ideologies that may diverge from their own. The book is a practical guide to understanding and combating political extremism, fostering a more balanced and equitable political discourse. Action: Don't just stand by as a spectator. Join Taylor on this journey towards a more balanced democracy. Learn how to critique even your in-groups, resist the traps of "both side-isms," and navigate the complexities of our political landscape. Together, we can save and rebuild our democracy. Take the first step today.
Author : Diane Stone
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415349444
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (494 download)
Download or read book Global Knowledge Networks and International Development written by Diane Stone and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws together leading experts from academia, think-tanks and donor agencies, to examine the impact of transnational knowledge networks in the formulation of local, national and global policy in the field of international development and transition studies. These leading contributors pay particular attention to the global reach of research and the manner in which knowledge is incorporated into, and shapes, transnational policy domains. They show how the 'knowledge agenda' has become a central part of the discourse of both developing societies and advanced economies. Governments and international organizations devote considerable financial resources to both in-house and contracted research. This volume will be of great interest to students, researchers and policy makers concerned with global policy, global governance and development.
Author : Gabriella Paar-Jakli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135010927
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Networked Governance and Transatlantic Relations written by Gabriella Paar-Jakli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s complex and interconnected world, scholars of international relations seek to better understand challenges spurred by intensified global communication and interaction. The complex connectedness of modern society and politics compels us to investigate the pattern of interconnections among actors who inhabit social and political spaces. Gabriella Paár-Jákli's study aims to advance theory and practice by examining the networks used by specialists in North America and Europe to achieve their policy goals in the area of science and technology. Her book suggests that to overcome policy problems transnationally, three critical factors should be considered. First, as science and technology policy becomes increasingly critical to resolving global issues, it should be regarded as an integral element of the foreign policy process. Second, as liberal international relations theory argues, the increasing role of NGOs must be taken seriously alongside states as vital agents of policy reform. Third, as transatlantic relations remain center to maintaining the global order, they must be reconsidered. Paar-Jakli assesses the role of digital networks as facilitators of regional cooperation. Utilizing various techniques of social network analysis, her research indicates an active and structurally discernible network in cyberspace among transatlantic organizations, and demonstrates the role of virtual networks as facilitators of cooperative arrangements in transatlantic relations. Paár-Jákli's original research uses social network analysis to investigate transatlantic cooperation, a new approach that will be noteworthy to network and transatlantic scholars as well as policymakers.
Author : Richard K. Laird
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781498576017
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Knowledge written by Richard K. Laird and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book restores the credibility of politics with the basics of human behavior and social science. It does this by discussing how to retain the positive relationship between learnability and livability.
Author : Regina Lenz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781013273162
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (731 download)
Download or read book Knowledge and Institutions written by Regina Lenz and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, entrepreneurship, art and cultural heritage, often at regional scales across Europe and North America. Rooted in the disciplines of management and organization studies, sociology, geography, political science, and economics the contributors all take comprehensive approaches to carve out the specific contextuality of institutions as well as their impact on societal outcomes. Not only does this book offer detailed insights into current debates in institutional theory, it also provides background for scholars, students, and professionals at the intersection between regional development, policy-making, and regulation. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Author : David Bridges
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319492128
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Philosophy in Educational Research written by David Bridges and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides critical and reflective discussions of a wide range of issues arising in education at the interface between philosophy, research, policy and practice. It addresses epistemological questions about the intellectual resources that underpin educational research, explores the relationship between philosophy and educational research, and examines debates about truth and truthfulness in educational research. Furthermore, it looks at issues to do with the relationship between research, practice and policy, and discusses questions about ethics and educational research. Finally, the book delves into the deeply contested area of research quality assessment. The book is based on extensive engagement in empirically based educational research projects and in the institutional and professional management of research, as well as in philosophical work. It clarifies what is at stake in international debates around educational research and teases out the nature of the arguments, and, where argument permits, the conclusions to which these point. The book discusses these familiar themes using less predictable sources and points of reference, such as: codes of social obligation in contemporary Egypt and New Zealand; the ‘Soviet’, and the inspiration of the nineteenth-century philosopher, Abai in contemporary Kazakhstan; seventeenth-century France, Pascal, and the disputes between Jesuits and Jansenites; eighteenth-century Italy, Giambattista Vico, and la scienzia nuova; ‘educational magic’ in traditional Ethiopia; and ends at a banquet with Socrates and dinner with wine and a conversation-loving Montaigne.
