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Experiments are now common in political science. They are an excellent methodological tool to estimate the causal effect of a treatment on an outcome. In this article, I review the use of lab experiments in political science. After a brief report on their popularity and advantages, I distinguish two ideal-types (economics-based and psychology-based) and outline the main lines of division between them. In the final section, I discuss the main challenges that lab experimentalists are facing today.

A discussion of U.S. interests in making India into a "great power." It is argued that one incentive in supporting India's bid to be a great power is to create a friendly site for U.S. military bases in the region, which are needed to support the U.S.'s expanding use of military force as a way of maintaining its global hegemony & countering its economic decline. Another incentive is to obtain the support of a strengthened Indian military in U.S. military actions. Particular military initiative linking the U.S. and India are described. Under the pretense of preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. has formed the Proliferation Security Initiative, & the Indian government has given signs that India might join. A recent U.S.-Indian agreement provides for collaboration on a missile-defense program. There are also signs that the U.S. may be seeking to make India the leader of an "Asian NATO," an alliance that would specifically be formed to counter China's influence. Possible weaknesses in the U.S. plan to make India into a great power are discussed. C. Ong-Dean

"No account of contemporary politics can ignore religion. The liberal democratic tradition in political thought has long treated religion with some suspicion, regarding it as a source of division and instability. Faith in Politics shows how such arguments are unpersuasive and dependent on questionable empirical claims: rather than being a serious threat to democracies' legitimacy, stability and freedom, religion can be democratically constructive. Using historical cases of important religious political movements to add empirical weight, Bryan McGraw suggests that religion will remain a significant political force for the foreseeable future and that pluralist democracies would do well to welcome rather than marginalize it"--

ABSTRACTIn 2010, an analysis of the top 50 political science journals showed that women were reasonably well represented as editors, associate editors, and board members compared to their numbers as senior faculty at PhD-granting institutions. As the presence of women in the profession has increased, have women kept up in these editorial positions? Overall, the data from 2018 suggest that they have. Although women are still significantly underrepresented as editors and associate editors at journals with small editorial staffs, they are well represented at those with medium-sized and large staffs. The proportion of women as board members also has kept pace with the proportion of female senior faculty at PhD-granting institutions, especially at the top five journals in the profession. There is still significant variation among journals but little change in their rankings: journals with the highest proportion of women as editors, associate editors, and board members in 2010 continued to lead the way in 2018.

European integration is a fundamentally open-ended and contested process. Within the 'mosaic of European integration theories', critical political economy perspectives highlight the imbalances and structural power asymmetries of the European project, and how they have become manifest in the multiple crises in Europe. How to account for both the origins and consequences of this crisis has become a key question for scholars and students of European integration. We argue that critical political economy (CPE) has an important and unique contribution to make here. Unlike other approaches, CPE seeks to uncover the deep connections between the (internal) dynamics of the European integration process and the dynamics of global capitalism, arguing that European integration, or disintegration for that matter, takes place in a global, structural context that shapes and conditions both form and content of the integration process. In this paper, we provide an overview of the key concepts, methodology and arguments of a critical political economy perspective on European integration. Following a discussion of the core conceptual framework, the paper then proceeds with an integrated analysis of EMU as a political project, with a particular focus on continuity and changes within the political economy of neoliberalism. The Euro crisis here serves as a contemporary reference point to illustrate the strengths and contributions of critical political economy perspectives to the overall mosaic of European integration theories.

In the following essay, Benoît Rihoux, Bernhard Kittel and Jonathon
W. Moses outline the recent developments in European political
methodology and highlight their own work in developing a number of
projects with the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
that include establishing a Standing Group in Political Methodology,
the ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques and the forthcoming
ECPR/Palgrave Macmillan Research Methods Book Series.

Explores broad trends in political theory that encompass a shift to more serious engagement with the changing political landscape. A normative & institutional gaze is turned on the concepts of the nation-state, citizenship, & political membership in liberal democracies. This focus on citizenship studies pursues the question of what should be the normative principles of democratic membership in a world of increasingly deterritorialized politics; liberal democracies are seen to operate under a dual logic where they are trapped between human rights claims & self-determination. A look at citizenship theories touches on the notions of collective identity, membership privilege, & social rights & benefits. Although political membership is neglected in mainstream political theory, three strands of thought are identified: deterritorialized citizenship (eg, James Rosenau), cosmopolitical citizenship (eg, Martha Nussbaum), & civic republican skepticism (eg, Michael Walzer). It is contended that these pursuits of new modalities of political membership have ignored the paradox of democratic legitimacy. Attention turns to a disaggregation effect resulting from current citizenship & immigration practices, wherein one might have civil or property rights without political membership. It is maintained that as long as citizenship status is tied to membership in a territorially bound & sovereign state, such states will persist as sites for entry & access to membership; current deterritorializing circumstances then prompt the question as to the appropriate level at which one should seek entry: local, national, or regional. The debate surrounding the idea of "difference" is touched on, along with the theoretical dilemmas posed by US citizenship. The question left unanswered is what liberal democracies can & ought to legitimately do in terms of immigration, absorption, & naturalization policies in light of the aforementioned dual commitment of human rights & sovereignty. J. Zendejas