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This paper surveys four game-theoretic models of politics, to offer an introduction to the analysis of political institutions. The first two models focus on electoral competition, to show how successful candidates' equilibrium strategies may differ under different electoral systems. The other two models probe the consequences of legislative bargaining under different constitutional structures.

Signature pedagogies have been defined as "types of teaching that organize the fundamental ways in which future practitioners are educated for their profession" (Schulman, 2005: 3). Applying Schulman's definition of signature pedagogies to political science, this article notes that as an academic discipline it does not seek to train students for a specific profession. It also recognises that political science's signature pedagogy is similar to those traditionally associated with the social sciences and humanities: mass lectures, small tutorials and private study. In recent times newer pedagogies such as problem-based learning, experiential learning and service learning have been introduced in political science programmes to marry theory and practice and promote critical thinking and independent learning. This article focuses on one such approach, service learning, assessing the contribution it can make to teaching in political science with reference to an analysis of its effects in a postgraduate module on democratic civic education in University College Cork, Ireland. Adapted from the source document.

PurposeThe question of "why we are in disaster studies" can be essential to reflect on discourses and practices – as students, researchers and professors – in constituting an oppressive disaster science and finding ways to liberate from it.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is based on autobiographical research and institutional ethnography to observe and analyze the discourses and practices about career trajectories as students, researchers and professors in disaster studies.FindingsThe paper provides some categories, concepts, theoretical approaches and lived experiences helpful for discussing ways of liberating disaster studies, such as public sociology of disaster.Originality/valueFew papers have focused on professional trajectories in disaster studies, bringing insights from public sociology and questioning oppressive disaster science.

Résumé La recherche intervention, théorisée par Marc Uhalde, est déployée dans les organisations par le sociologue pour produire des connaissances situées à des fins de transformation des rapports sociaux. Nous interrogeons la capacité de ce mode de recherche à produire des connaissances valides au regard de la discipline sociologique en le resituant dans la pluralité des rapports de production entre science et société. La recherche intervention, revisitée à l'aune des notions de « science en société » et de « démocratie technique », révèle les modalités hybrides qui la composent et en font une combinaison singulière entre production de connaissances à distance des acteurs de l'organisation et coproduction de sens et de capacités avec ces acteurs.

Science studies has often been against the normative dimension of epistemology, which made a naturalistic study of science impossible. But this is not to say that a new type of normativity cannot be detected at work inscience studies. This is especially true in the second wave of studies dealing with the body, which has aimed at criticizing the physicalization of the body without falling into the various traps of a phenomenology simply added to a physical substrate. This article explores the work of Isabelle Stengers and Vinciane Despret in that respect, and shows how it can be used to rethink the articulation between the various levels that make up a body.

Background: Antiretroviral drugs are lifeline for patients living with HIV. Adverse drug reactions can compromise the compliance to antiretroviral therapy. The objectives of the study were to estimate the prevalence of adverse drug reactions and to assess its risk factors in patients living with HIV and receiving antiretroviral therapy.Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted among 496 patients living with HIV at B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences for a period of one year. Adverse drug reactions were evaluated based upon clinical history, clinical examination and investigations. Results: Majority of patients were of 31-45 year age group (58.1%) and on first-line antiretroviral therapy regimen (94.3%). Total of 240 adverse drug reactions were documented. Prevalence of adverse drug reaction was 34.7%. Skin rash, anemia and nausea and vomiting were the three most common adverse drug reactions. The adverse drug reactions were more common in patients having non-communicable diseases, chronic co-infections, taking more than 3 non-HIV drugs, second and third-line antiretroviral regimen and it was statistically significant (P-value < 0.05). Conclusions: Prevalence of adverse drug reaction was high in the patients living with HIV. Age, gender, co-infections, non-communicable diseases, taking more than three non-HIV drugs and second and third-line antiretroviral regimen were identified as possible risk factor for occurrence of adverse drug reactions and their prior identification is important to optimize the best suited antiretroviral regimen.Keywords: Adverse drug reactions; antiretroviral therapy; pharmacovigilance

The practice of science in the search for the First Americans is a flawed endeavor. Not only is science constrained by the shifting centers of cultural power external to science, but also by the institutions, elites, and cognitive values internal to science. Substantive disagreement over a cultural past is a reflection of unstabilized power relationships in the present. Although science traditionally is believed to speak truth to governmental power, federal law dictates that American Indian traditions hold an epistemological status equal to the methods of science when determining the cultural affiliation of, and access to, pre-European human remains. Consequently, discovery and examination of the most important First American artifacts occur only as a product of a negotiation between scientists and the very groups that frequently oppose them. This is a case study of the practice of science in its search for the First Americans in this unstable environment. This dissertation deconstructs: (1) the conflicts between the methods of science and the traditional beliefs of modern American Indians; (2) the power struggles for primacy of place internal to the sciences themselves; and (3) the interactions with external authorities such as government agencies, the press, universities, and museums. It is an examination into how the issues have been defined and how differences in cultural myths, scientific theories, research methodologies and public policy remain unsettled in modern America. It is an investigation of the blurred boundaries between science and myth as well as between fact and theory that ultimately weaken the credibility of science as a cultural mechanism for interpreting the natural world. Finally, this dissertation concludes that the absence of a firm American cultural ground upon which to place an epistemological fulcrum has greatly contributed not only to the First American identity search remaining unresolved, but also to the instability of the very science which is conducting the search. ; Ph. D.

"This outline of Christian political action was written by the nineteenth century pioneer of the genre, the Dutchman Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer. Groen not only developed a political philosophy based solidly in Reformation truths but he also formed a political party to bring those truths to bear in the political forum of his day. Then, as now, the battle was against the Revolution. Against the Revolution there is only one antidote: the Gospel. To proclaim and elaborate this truth was Groen van Prinsterer's life work. This volume-never before published in English-is an adept summary of it"--