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Examines how international law is portrayed in sociological analyses, sociology's impact on the study of international law; & the kind of topics available for multidisciplinary cooperation between international political sociology & international law. Three international political sociology papers focused on law are used to address these issues. References. D. Edelman

This contribution is based on four assumptions: 1) the social and political sciences should rebuild a systematic relationship with history, 2) this is urgent if we want to give depth to the analysis of new phenomena on a global scale that have characterized this long decade following the Great Recession, 3) sociology and political science need to build research of a comparative nature that will stand the test of time, 4) the crisis of democracies is the unifying topic that today requires a comparison between the crisis of American democracy with the crises of European democracies. This, however, can be done realistically only by understanding the historical uniqueness that characterizes each political system.

Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; List of Illustrations ; List of Tables ; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Political Cultures; 2. The Constitution; 3. Elections and Political Parties; 4. The State Legislature; 5. The Governor; 6. Interest Groups and Lobbying; 7. State and Local Governments in a Federal Structure; 8. Taxing, Spending, and Borrowing; 9. Kansas Politics in State and Nation; Appendixes; 1. The Kansas Court System ; 2. Summary of Legislation Governing Lobbying in Kansas ; Notes; Suggestions for Further Reading; Index

Abstract The article analyses the production of Brazilian political science, as published in six periodicals (Dados, Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Sociais, Novos Estudos Cebrap, Lua Nova,Opiniao Publica and Brazilian Journal of Political Science) over a period of five decades (1966-2015). The text emphasizes two aspects: first, the distribution of articles by thematic areas of political science; and second, the type of method used, with an emphasis on the variety of statistical procedures used by the authors. The article observes the growing volume of articles published by Brazilian political scientists, particularly from the second half of the 1990s. One of the conclusions of the paper is that although statistics are used - and in recent years more advanced techniques have spread - Brazilian political science is far from being considered an eminently quantitative discipline.