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This report is based upon a survey of research in progress in political science departments of American universities in the spring of 1950. Undertaken jointly by the Committee on Research of the American Political Science Association and the Division of Higher Education of the United States Office of Education, the survey was essentially an analysis of questionnaires sent to the chairmen of 112 departments of political science believed to be in a position that would enable them particularly to emphasize research. Seventy-five of the 112 chairmen replied to the questionnaire, fourteen merely to state that no research was being conducted in their departments. Although several leading institutions did not reply, it is a fair guess that at least seventy-five per cent of the research being conducted by or in departments of political science was reported and subsequently analyzed.

The article explores the development and institutionalisation of political science in Romania after 1989. It argues that, despite a rapid process of expansion and institutionalisation, the emergence of political science as an internationally competitive discipline has been fundamentally affected by two types of factors: communist legacies and systemic under-investment in teaching and research. Adapted from the source document.

We wish to pass on two exercises that we have found useful in introducing political science courses. Typically, finding a common basis of experience from which students can relate to the concepts and theories of the discipline is a problem. A few students will have experienced politics in government by working in campaigns, for example, and others will have recognized that politics pervades many activities outside government. But these threads are only drawn together by an instructor with difficulty and, anyway, will be just second hand experiences for many students.Introducing the students by using a brief game can solve the problem admirably. We will outline two games, each likely to consume an hour or so of class time; both could be conducted within one hour.

Discusses the value of field experimentation in political science. The key features of experiments are elaborated, demonstrating why well-conducted experiments are more persuasive arbiters of causality than comparable nonexperimental research. Issues arising in the design & analysis of experiments in the field & laboratory are addressed, scrutinizing literature featuring both types of investigation. Applications for field experimentation are considered before attending to the leading criticisms against experimentation centered on the inability to manipulate key political variables, cost & logistics, external & internal validity, generation of contradictory results, production of no clear-cut sense of causality in some cases, the capacity to narrow the scope of inquiry, & ethics. These criticisms are found wanting, & it is argued that randomized intervention into real-world settings should be a prominent methodology. J. Zendejas

Provides possible reasons for the fact that President Clinton's job approval ratings in the initial ten days of the Lewinsky matter went up from 60 to 70 percent, suggesting that political substance can move public opinion more than media politics; US.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Key Texts -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 The Importance of Comparison -- Forms of comparative analysis -- Types of comparative studies -- The content of comparisons -- Cross-time comparisons -- Conclusion -- 2 The Logic of Comparison -- Comparative research design -- Research design and case selection -- Levels of analysis -- Threats to validity in non-experimental research -- Conclusion -- 3 The Number of Cases and Which Ones? -- Strategies with different numbers of cases -- Small-N research in general -- Conclusion -- 4 Measurement and Bias -- The traveling problem -- Typologies -- Triangulation -- Nominal categories -- Ideal-type analysis and measurement -- Conclusion -- 5 The Role of Theory in Comparative Politics -- Levels of explanation -- Macro-level theories -- Meso-level theories -- Micro-level theories -- State and society -- Conclusion -- 6 The Case Study -- Improving case research -- Case studies -- Conducting case research -- Defining cases -- The purposes of case research -- The case as process -- Issues in case study research -- The role of the case researcher -- Conclusion -- 7 Building on Case Analysis -- Meta-analysis -- Boolean algebra and cumulation -- Conclusion -- 8 Events Data and Change Over Time -- Events data -- The method -- Relationships with other methods -- Potential problems -- Conclusion -- 9 Statistical Analysis -- Statistical modes of explanation in comparative politics -- The question of time -- The problem of context -- Coping with a small N -- Secondary analysis -- Conclusion -- 10 The Future of Comparative Politics -- Territory or function: choices in comparison -- Theory and the restriction of perspective -- Methods and the restriction of vision -- The exceptional and the ordinary: what can we learn from each? -- Modesty, but hope -- The future of comparative politics.