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ReseñaTítulo: The Politics of Political Science: Re-Writing Latin American ExperiencesAutor: Paulo RaveccaAño de publicación: 2019Edición: PrimeraPáginas: 292ISBN: 978 0815363088Editorial: Routledge

La Política de la Ciencia Política de Paulo Ravecca ofrece un magnífico análisis sobre varios puntos fundamentales dentro de la institucionalización de la ciencia política y su epistemología.
El libro de Ravecca es, en esencia, novedoso tanto en los temas que aborda como en su aproximación metodológica: un análisis comparado que triangula con investigación autoetnográfica, una forma poco convencional en la investigación social.

Environmental politics studies the role of political bodies and processes in the management of the environment and the allocation of its resources. The new discipline's main concerns are public perception of the environmental crisis, the role of national and sub-national governments, comparative environmental politics, and the role of the UN and its agencies. The future for the discipline is also discussed. (CP)

The core of this thesis explores three issues at the intersection of political and development economics. In Chapter 2, I demonstrate how ethnic divisions can undermine the provision of an important public good: teacher attendance. In the presence of weak formal institutions- such as those found in many less developed countries -teachers face a lower likelihood of punishment for absenteeism. In these settings, other forms of local collective action are often required to produce public goods and to prevent free-riding. However, a growing literature has shown that local collective action outcomes are often adversely affected by ethnic divisions. I identify the impact of a new measure of ethnic divisions on teacher absenteeism using two datasets: one collected by the World Bank from random unannounced school visits in Uganda, and another collected from over 20,000 respondents to the Afrobarometer survey in 16 sub-Saharan African countries. I incorporate constructivist theories of ethnicity into the measure by allowing the effect of diversity to vary by the salience of ethnic identification in each district. I find that, at high levels of ethnic salience, a one standard deviation increase in ethnic diversity increases the observed absenteeism rate in Uganda by between 3.8 and 9.3 percentage points, or 0.08 and 0.21 standard deviations. In the multi-country survey data, the same change increases perceived absenteeism by 0.08 standard deviations. At low levels of ethnic salience, ethnic diversity has no positive effect on absenteeism in either dataset. I provide suggestive evidence that social capital in the form of within-school teacher networks, rather than community-level monitoring, may explain the findings. The results offer one explanation for why substantial recent investment in education does not seem to be leading to improved test-score outcomes for children in many ethnically diverse countries. The analysis also has implications for the measurement of ethnic divisions ? ; TARA (Trinity?s Access to Research Archive) has a robust takedown policy. Please contact us if you have any concerns: rssadmin@tcd.ie

"In twelve critical and interdisciplinary chapters, this text examines the relationship between the fantastic in novels, movies and video games and real-world debates about nationalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism. This anthology charts a space, where postcolonial theory and science fiction and fantasy studies work to expand our understanding of the fantastic, while expanding the scope of postcolonial discussions"--Provided by publisher