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Book Synopsis Politics as a Practical Science by : Wilhelm Hennis
Download or read book Politics as a Practical Science written by Wilhelm Hennis and published by New Perspectives in German Pol. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In essays reaching from 1959 to 2003 Wilhelm Hennis reconnects political theory to the tradition of politics as a 'practical science'.
Book Synopsis Field Experiments in Political Science and Public Policy by : Peter John
Download or read book Field Experiments in Political Science and Public Policy written by Peter John and published by Routledge is. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter John's latest book is an introduction to experimentation in political science and public policy. It first defines experimentation and offers historical context, and then moves on to review key features of the statistical method, all the while linking experimentation to core ideas in politics and public policy. Yet rather than functioning as just a research methods text, the book instead is an invitation to the intellectual project and research program of experimentation, which has large ramifications for how researchers and students of political science and public policy carry out their work more generally.
Book Synopsis Playing Politics with Science by : David B. Resnik
Download or read book Playing Politics with Science written by David B. Resnik and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade, science in the United States has become increasingly politicized, as government officials have been accused of manipulating, distorting, subverting, and censoring science for ideological purposes. Political gamesmanship has played a major role in many different areas of science, including the debate over global climate change, embryonic stem cell research, government funding of research, the FDA's approval process, military intelligence related to Iraq, research with human subjects, and the teaching of evolution in public schools. In Playing Politics with Science, David B. Resnik explores the philosophical, political, and ethical issues related to the politicalization of science and develops a conceptual framework for thinking about government restrictions on scientific practice. Resnik argues that the public has a right and a duty to oversee scientific research to protect important social values and hold scientists accountable for their actions, but that inappropriate government control over science can erode the integrity and trustworthiness of research, hamper scientific creativity and innovation, undermine the fairness and effectiveness of government and policies informed by science, discourage talented researchers from working for the government, and violate the freedom of scientists. Resnik also makes policy recommendations for protecting science from politicalization, and maintains that scientific autonomy and government control must be properly balanced so that restrictions on science can benefit society without undermining scientific research, education, and expert advice.
Book Synopsis Thinking Like a Political Scientist by : Christopher Howard
Download or read book Thinking Like a Political Scientist written by Christopher Howard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and with good reason. Most of the standard books on research methods fail to highlight the most important concepts and questions. Instead, they brim with dry technical definitions and focus heavily on statistical analysis, slighting other valuable methods. This approach not only dulls potential enjoyment of the course, but prevents students from mastering the skills they need to engage more directly and meaningfully with a wide variety of research. With wit and practical wisdom, Christopher Howard draws on more than a decade of experience teaching research methods to transform a typically dreary subject and teach budding political scientists the critical skills they need to read published research more effectively and produce better research of their own. The first part of the book is devoted to asking three fundamental questions in political science: What happened? Why? Who cares? In the second section, Howard demonstrates how to answer these questions by choosing an appropriate research design, selecting cases, and working with numbers and written documents as evidence. Drawing on examples from American and comparative politics, international relations, and public policy, Thinking Like a Political Scientist highlights the most common challenges that political scientists routinely face, and each chapter concludes with exercises so that students can practice dealing with those challenges.
Book Synopsis An Introduction to the History of the Science of Politics by : Frederick Pollock
Download or read book An Introduction to the History of the Science of Politics written by Frederick Pollock and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excerpt from the first chapter: The History of Political Science - Science of Greek Philosophy …Before we enter on the history it may be as well to take a rough general view of the place of the theory of politics in human knowledge. Many persons would perhaps deny that there is any science of politics at all. If they meant that there is no body of rules from which a Prime Minister may infallibly learn how to command a majority, they would be right as to the fact, but would betray a rather inadequate notion of what science is. There is a science of politics in the same sense, and to the same, or about the same, extent, as there is a science of morals, Whatever systematic moralists may have professed to think, it is at least doubtful whether systems of moral philosophy have been of much direct use in helping people to decide actual questions of conduct. For my own part, I would in a case of conscience rather consult a right-minded and sensible friend than any moral philosopher in the world. I should think neither the better nor the worse of his advice if he happened also to be a student of philosophy. Nevertheless few educated persons will refuse to admit that inquiry into the nature and origin of moral rules is legitimate and useful, or will maintain that the endeavour to refer them, historically or rationally, to general principles is altogether idle. Men, being moral beings, are led to reflect on the nature of right and wrong, and the functions of conscience; being citizens, they are equally led to reflect on the nature of the State, the functions of government, and 'the origin and authority of civil obligation. This latter inquiry is indeed more practical than the other ; for political theories of the most general kind often have considerable direct influence in public affairs, which cannot, I think, be said of ethical theories. The declaration of the Eights of Man by the French Constituent Assembly has certainly not been without practical effect. It consists of general statements of what men, as men, are entitled to and may justly demand. If true, the statements are of the utmost importance to politicians and legislators; if false, they are highly mischievous. In either case they purport to be propositions of political science. M. Barthélemy St. Hilaire informed the world in 1848 that they were the crown and sum of all the political science of all former ages. Claiming such authority, and having in fact influenced men's minds, the principles thus enounced cannot be merely disregarded; and it is scientific criticism that must establish or refute them. To the persons who deny the necessity or possibility of philosophy it is a sufficient answer that at all events critical philosophy is needful for the exposure of philosophies falsely so called; and in the same way political science must and does exist, if it were only for the refutation of absurd political theories and projects…..
Book Synopsis Writing in Political Science by : Diane E. Schmidt
Download or read book Writing in Political Science written by Diane E. Schmidt and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to writing and arguing about political events, ideas, passions, and agendas.
Download or read book The State written by Woodrow Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Honest Broker by : Roger A. Pielke (Jr.)
Download or read book The Honest Broker written by Roger A. Pielke (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide for scientists, politicians and citizens to the relationship between science and politics.
Download or read book Edmund Burke written by Peter Stanlis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique book, Peter J. Stanlis, the leading Burke scholar in America, has collected all the most important works and speeches of Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British statesman, political philosopher, and founder of modern conservative thought and, with due care to preserve the beauty of Burke's prose, edited them down to their essentials. "The main purpose of these selections," Stanlis explains, "is to present extensive and in the main unbroken samples of Burke's most representative thought in his most characteristic style, on a great variety of subjects." In this major effort you can find--to name only a few topics covered--Burke's defense of ordered liberty, his advocacy of secure property rights, his love of Christianity and Europe's moral tradition, and his impassioned jeremiad against the orgy of destruction that the French Revolution became. Stanlis's general introduction gives important insight into Burke's early life, education, professional training, literary and political career, prose style, political philosophy, and more. In addition, each selection is preceded by a headnote that clarifies the selections in their historical context and includes a brief analytical interpretation. A chronology highlights important dates in Burke's life and career. In its compactness and comprehensiveness, this volume is the quintessential Burke reader. It will be of interest to historians, political scientists, and students of literature and intellectual history.
Book Synopsis Theory and Practice in Aristotle's Natural Science by : David Ebrey
Download or read book Theory and Practice in Aristotle's Natural Science written by David Ebrey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle argued that in theory one could acquire knowledge of the natural world. But he did not stop there; he put his theories into practice. This volume of new essays shows how Aristotle's natural science and philosophical theories shed light on one another. The contributors engage with both biological and non-biological scientific works and with a wide variety of theoretical works, including Physics, Generation and Corruption, On the Soul, and Posterior Analytics. The essays focus on a number of themes, including the sort of explanation provided by matter; the relationship between matter, teleology, and necessity; cosmic teleology; how an organism's soul and faculties relate to its end; how to define things such as sleep, void, and soul; and the proper way to make scientific judgments. The resulting volume offers a rich and integrated view of Aristotle's science and shows how it fits with his larger philosophical theories.
Book Synopsis Systematic Politics by : George E. Gordon Catlin
Download or read book Systematic Politics written by George E. Gordon Catlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1962, Systematic Politics presents Catlin’s political theories and reviews the work of contemporaries within the field. Divided into two parts, Part One is focused on political science and explores areas such as definitions and functions, the theory of politics as hypothesis, freedom and authority, and different forms of government. Part Two centres on political philosophy, discussing topics such as community, society and the individual, and law and sovereignty. Systematic Politics will appeal to those with an interest in the history of political thought, political theory, and political philosophy.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Guidebook to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by : Gerard J. Hughes
Download or read book The Routledge Guidebook to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics written by Gerard J. Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Guidebook to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics introduces the major themes in Aristotle's great book and acts as a companion for reading this key work.
Book Synopsis The Presbyterian Review by : Charles Augustus Briggs
Download or read book The Presbyterian Review written by Charles Augustus Briggs and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Reviews of recent theological literature".
Book Synopsis Platonopolis by : Dominic J. O'Meara
Download or read book Platonopolis written by Dominic J. O'Meara and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity, from Plotinus (third century) to the sixth-century schools in Athens and Alexandria, neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. Dominic O'Meara presents a revelatory reappraisal of these thinkers, arguing that their otherworldliness involved rather than excluded political ideas, and he proposes for the first time a reconstruction of theirpolitical philosophy, their conception of the function, structure, and contents of political science, and its relation to political virtue and to the divinization of soul and state.Among the topics discussed by O'Meara are: philosopher-kings and queens; political goals and levels of reform: law, constitutions, justice, and penology; the political function of religion; and the limits of political science and action. He also explores various reactions to these political ideas in the works of Christian and Islamic writers, in particular Eusebius, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, and al-Farabi.Filling a major gap in our understanding, Platonopolis will be of substantial interest to scholars and students of ancient philosophy, classicists, and historians of political thought.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215561398 Total Pages :52 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (613 download)
Book Synopsis Practical experiments in school science lessons and science field trips by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee
Download or read book Practical experiments in school science lessons and science field trips written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Science and Technology Committee report on practical experiments in school science lessons and science field trips concludes that many students are receiving poor practical science experiences during their secondary school education. There was no credible evidence to support the frequently cited explanation of health and safety concerns for a decline in practicals and trips. Instead, more focus is needed on what happens after teachers have been recruited to the profession: knowledge and practical skills must be maintained and developed in order for high quality science education to be delivered. High quality science facilities and qualified and experienced technical support are vital. A career structure for technical staff should be provided and the government should ensure schools provide science facilities to match its aspirations for science education. Practical science is relatively expensive and carries little cachet for parents comparing schools. The inspection regime and the requirements set for exam boards should therefore drive higher quality with more and better practical science lessons. The Committee also found a lack of coherence in the provision of science educational materials. It urges the science community to utilise the STEM directories - the online database of STEM enhancement and enrichment activities for schools and colleges - and calls on the government to secure the future of the directories which provide vital contacts between schools and scientists. Finally, the committee urges the government to provide a detailed strategy on how it intends to achieve its ambition to increase participation in school science subjects.
Author :Joaquim M. Machado de Assis Publisher :University of California Press ISBN 13 :0520364449 Total Pages :208 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (23 download)
Book Synopsis Helena by : Joaquim M. Machado de Assis
Download or read book Helena written by Joaquim M. Machado de Assis and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
Book Synopsis A Discourse on Disenchantment by : Gilbert G. Germain
Download or read book A Discourse on Disenchantment written by Gilbert G. Germain and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first full-length study of the ongoing debate over the status of our "disenchanted" world--a world stripped of mysterious and supernatural forces by the demythologizing power of reason and modern science. It draws together for the first time the writings of various theorists on this theme, such as Georg Lukacs, Theodor Adorno, and Jürgen Habermas, providing a coherent overview of an evolving dialogue, as well as Germain's own evaluation of the disenchantment problematic.
