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The articles by Kees van Kersbergen and Daniele Caramani constitute an impressive joint plea in favour of descriptive analyses within comparative politics. They also warn, less convincingly, against an alleged obsession of the discipline with variation that, according to them, does not do justice to the similarity of many cases. This response demonstrates that limiting the analysis to similar cases creates the risk of engaging in the hapless exercise of explaining the constant. Augmenting the role of description without simultaneously advancing sound theoretical models furthermore leads to theory-free data mining exercises. I argue that all empirically oriented fields in political science could profit from what I call 'causal description' and hence the in-depth univariate analysis of the dependent variable.

At head of title: The University of North Carolina. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Vol. 1-17 published under the direction of the North Carolina Historical Society; vol. 18-22 under the direction of the Department of History and Government of the University of North Carolina; vol. 23- under the direction of the Departments of History and Political Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Describes the Political Science department's assessment activities for academic year 2015-2016. ; The department reports on its loop closing measures in response to past years' assessments and analyses, focused on the updating and revision of the existing undergraduate and graduate curricula to align with new departmental strengths and interests, as well as revisions to the program SLOs in response to internal analyses of past assessments (including barriers to effective assessment). A discussion of the proposed PSLOs, including one specifically addressed to diversity, is included. Plans for AY 201617 include a finalizing of the proposed PSLO revisions and indirect assessments of student success rates to gauge the opportunity gap among Political Science majors.

Pol'al biography has become both increasingly distant from Amer pol'al sci & increasingly subjective in construction & interpretation. Current preferences stress the study of leadership in the plural, partly because such `collectivity' studies can be more easily cast in a conceptual framework satisfactory to pol'al sci'ts. The trend appears to be due to the predominance of the behavioral approach & to the climate of opinion among pol'al sci'ts, whose dominant view minimizes the importance of the individual leader. This viewpoint seems to be, in part, the product of a group-oriented process of pol'al soc'ization. At the theoretical level, the behavioral approach has induced a conscious search for stable analytical units, an orientation that appears to be incompatible with pol'al biography since it negates the possibility of studying the juxtaposition of personality & situation. On the other hand, a less restrictive use of the criteria & concepts evolved by the behaviorists might reestablish biographical studies of individual leaders as an element of ool'al sci. IPSA.

Chapter 1. Political Epistemology: Positioning Science Studies -- Chapter 2. The Logic of Science and Technology as a Developmental Tendency of Modernity -- Chapter 3. On Both Sides of the Iron Curtain: The Marxist Struggle for Cultural Hegemony and HPS for a 'Free Society' -- Chapter 4. Toward a Socio-Political History of Science: From Structures to Hegemonies -- Chapter 5. Hegemony and Science: Epistemological and Historiographical Perspectives

The man of destiny.--The Waterloo campaign.--Goethe's position in practical politics.--The politics of "The Divina commedia."--Machiavelli's "Prince."--Dante's political allegory. ; Mode of access: Internet.

If health promotion as a field of change for human and ecological health is to maintain its urgency, it needs to continue building its policy credentials. This paper charts the development of policy as a concern for IUHE/IUHPE (International Union for Health Education/International Union for Health Promotion and Education) from the mid-1970s when 'health education policies' were prominent issues, to the launch of Healthy Public Policy (in the 1980s) and Health in All Policy (in the 2000s). We argue that solid conceptual and theoretical foundations exist to frame and develop the relevance and connectedness of health promotion more prominently. We start off with a brief introduction into (health) political science, and then illustrate the urgency of the argument with three case studies. The first takes a critical realist perspective on 'closing the gap' in Australian Indigenous populations. With recent evidence it demonstrates that the core of the policymaking process needs to re-align itself with an Indigenous narrative. The second case study reviews the politics of healthy urban planning and health equity in cities. Taking a critical theory institutionalist view, the case describes how the political and narrative parallels between urban theory and health equity have gone underexplored. With an explicit gaze to connect the two, the field could become a large and influential driver of enhanced health promotion and public health policy. The third case describes the languages, policy frames, and distinctions, in four urban/health paradigms. It shows that unconscious policy and practice bias exists in policy priorities and processes. We conclude with observations and recommendations on the role of health promotion as a conceptual realm and field of activity. We show that all health promoters should be aware of the political nature of their enterprise. Tools and analyses exist to help further action.

"The following pages form the article Political economy in the Encyclopædia metropolitana. A few copies have been struck off separately for private distribution." ; Mode of access: Internet.

Originally published in 1975, this book advocates a certain approach to the study of government: the focus should be institutional, the method comparative and the level practical. The book divides into 2 sections on political science and public administration but the themes are common, as is much of the subject matter. Chapters on the institutional and comparative approach are intended to show how political institutions are often designed to reflect political theories, how institutional engineering may take place and how lessons for domestic reform may be learnt from foreign experience. The second section looks at the state of public administration studies in Britain, the nature of the subject, drawing on the work of earlier theorists, the role of the universities and the civic contribution such study can make

How should a Christian political scientist think about power, liberalism, and political science? In answering this question, this article first defines power. Considered primarily in relation to the state, power is exercised in conflicts of interests: by officials, parties, or groups or elites getting others to do something the others would not otherwise do, or keeping one or more alternative from even being discussed, and perhaps obscuring what the real interests of others are. Then the argument turns to establishing that how one thinks about power is closely related to one's larger political theory, e.g., what counts as the "real interests" of a group, what is freedom, what are the necessary conditions for human beings to flourish, what is liberalism, what is modernity, etc. Finally, what then would a Christian approach to political science look like? It would be an exercise of practical reason which would take into account the teaching of scripture and develop an understanding of shalom (human flourishing) in relation to the scope, capability, and abuse of political power and also investigate the role of the Church in the political order.

The teaching of quantitative research methods is an integral part of most postgraduate programmes in politics, but less common at undergraduate level. This article explores the extent to which research methods in general, and quantitative research methods in particular, form part of the curricula of Politics departments in the UK. We then discuss an approach for motivating interest in a subject that tends to be unpopular with many students. We recommend an approach that utilises the links between the general quantification of politics with the quantitative study of political phenomena, as well as a combination of basic research methods for all and more advanced student-focused training for some.

This article reports the results from a national survey directed to the department chairs of political science to assess the current and future state of distance learning in that discipline. The insights of this research are relevant to all social science fields and offer important insights to other academic disciplines as well. Key findings of the study include the low utilization of distance learning courses, a low degree of importance currently attributed to distance learning and modest expectations of future growth, ambivalent acceptance of a future role for distance learning, the common use of Internet-related technologies, low levels of faculty knowledge and interest about distance learning, limited institutional support, and serious doubts about the appropriateness and quality of instruction at a distance. We propose a model of the size and scope of distance learning as a function of three factors: the capacity of distance learning technologies, market demand, and faculty and university interest in distance learning. The article concludes with suggestions of critical areas for future research in this dynamic, fluid post-secondary environment.