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This work is devoted to a critical analytical examination of the history, character, and conduct of contemporary academic political theory and to a reconsideration of significant elements of this field of inquiry from the perspective of the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

At the level of regime typologies, the uncertain status and inherent weakness of the opposition mark defining features of regimes beyond liberal democracy. However, even the performance and evolution of the latter tend to be shaped by oppositions and the regime's approach to dealing with them. This article offers a bird's-eye view of political oppositions in contemporary electoral democracies and competitive autocracies. It focuses on patterns of strategic choices and behavior by both governments and oppositions. That endeavor forms part of a larger joint venture seeking to give center stage to those actors living in the shadows of increasingly unscrupulous power-holders. ; Version of record

ABSTRACTInternship placements located away from capital cities and metropolitan areas may lack opportunities for involvement in high-profile issues but they can uphold standards of "high-impact educational practice" (Kuh 2008). This study of 59 political science interns at the Mississippi University for Women demonstrates that high-impact outcomes may be generated in small-city placements that include administrative tasks if students are encouraged to reflect on their experiences and recommend improvements. Students not only extract information from their experiences for academic assignments, they also appraise the effectiveness of the work unit in attaining its goals and they formulate means by which it may improve procedures and outcomes. The scale of operations in small-city environments broadens the options for this type of analysis: exposure to a wide scope of decision processes and results is preferred to a focus on a specialized task.

The study of genre has recently attracted the interest of scholars from various disciplines. This ‎interest comes from learning how individuals use language to comprehend and respond to ‎communicative situations and how these uses develop over time. This research paper deals with the analysis of two speeches by Barack Obama and Donald Trump at the UN general assembly following Bhatia's (1993) model of genre analysis. This paper aims to investigate the cognitive structuring of political speeches so as to examine the ‎typical strategies politicians choose to convey their communicative purposes and uncover the ‎linguistic realizations of moves and strategies‎.It is argued that there are certain conventions governing the political speeches at the UN generally assembly making it a special political sub-genre by its own. The analysis shows that both presidents are adherent to this genre-structuring to serve their political agenda. Furthermore, it is revealed that both speakers utilize the same strategies for the argumentative ‎move. Each strategy is chosen based on the communicative goals of the two speakers. ‎It is also revealed that through carrying out genre analysis, there will be a clearer view of the political ends, and the underlined image of America as the superhero of the world.

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 1959. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived

The Brexit referendum and the last presidential election in the USA are just two examples of recent vote results that have been wrongly predicted. This research paper aims to identify the formation of voting behaviour to revaluate the necessary factors and variables in the correct and scientific prediction and analysis of voting behaviour. More specifically, this paper chose anti-European voting behaviour in Germany, which is also a current European-wide societal phenomenon, to analyse and explain the formation of general voting behaviour in detail. Many researchers, including Goodwin and Heath (2016), analysed the quality of existing polling methodology to explain the incorrect prediction of the Brexit result. This research forms a new approach towards the identification of voting behaviour by including more variables than usual. In collaboration with YouGov Deutschland GmbH, a strategic sample of the German population of 993 participants was formed. Participants were asked questions relating to individual differences, political ideology, attitudes towards daily political topics and socio-demographic factors. Voters who voted for the AfD, the main anti-European party in Germany, were more likely to be in some form of relationship, were more likely to be male, and over-represented the age group 40–49. Finally, voters voted for the AfD because the party engaged with political topics in a way that no other party did. This research is somewhat limited because the questionnaire focused on voters voting for the AfD. Furthermore, quantitative research can only identify and analyse individual human behaviour to a certain extent, whereas qualitative data, which this research lacks, can potentially help to identify voting behaviour. Relevant and important factors such as political ideology and individual differences, which are included here, but are usually not part of political research, must play a role in the future identification of voting behaviour.

Published by Sage in 2012, the International Encyclopedia of Political Science has been certainly a major event for the community of political scientists around the world. With eight volumes, more than four thousand pages, and hundreds of entries, it covers all Political Science sub-disciplines in their theoretical as well as empirical developments to date. Even more, it aims to be a definitive guide to the 'global readers' interested to the interpretation of political phenomena at the beginning of the XXI century, overcoming the American or Western ethnocentrism that has characterized many similar works in the past. To what extent have these ambitious goals been achieved? In this focus article, we review the merits and limits of this impressive enterprise, focusing in particular on Comparative Politics, Public Policy Analysis, Public Administration, and International Relations. Adapted from the source document.

Al enseñar filosofía surge una serie de preguntas ineludibles: qué enseñar, cómo y para qué. En este trabajo intentaremos responder a estos interrogantes didácticos, centrándonos específicamente en la enseñanza de la Filosofía Política en el Bachillerato de Bellas Artes. En particular, en el presente artículo se propondrán ciertos lineamientos con el objetivo de incluir una unidad de Filosofía Política en los programas de séptimo año de la mencionada institución empleando como marco teórico a la hermenéutica de Gadamer, la cual representa a nuestro entender un enriquecimiento de la modalidad histórica propuesta por G. Obiols y A. Cerletti para la enseñanza de la filosofía. ; Why, how and what to teach are some inescapable questions when trying to impart philosophy. In this study, we aimed to answer these questions by focusing on the school teaching of Political Philosophy at the Bachillerato de Bellas Artes. Particularly, we propose some guidelines with the aim of including a Political Philosophy subject in the last degree of that institution. We used Gadamer's hermeneutics as the theoretical framework, which represents an improvement to the G. Obiols'and A. Cerletti's historical approach. ; Bachillerato de Bellas Artes "Prof. Francisco A. De Santo"

A commentary on the political science career of Leicester Chisholm Webb & his contribution to Australian political science. A discussion of his life & career is accompanied with the broader issues of the development of his department at the Australian National U & the role of the department in the study of Australian politics. Webb's staff appointments, research programs, publications, postgraduate students, & involvement in public policy development are also examined. Webb was a distinguished researcher with varied interests & a broad agenda. Although his contributions are largely forgotten, he was a public intellectual of high order. 71 Appendixes. L. A. Hoffman