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Vol. 1: Thematic studies. - 202 S. : 11 Tab., Lit. S. 192-202, Lit.Hinw. - ISBN 9988-7716-3-0.; Vol. 2: Constituency studies. - 480 S. : graph. Darst., zahlr. Tab., Lit. S. 471-480, Lit.Hinw. - ISBN 9988-7716-4-9

Trust in government dropped to a near-record low during the 1992 election as Ross Perot's startling campaign illustrated all too graphically. Stephen Craig shows the trajectory of this popular discontent over the years and predicts that the confidence gap is not likely to close until citizens adjust their perceptions and expectations of government--a shift that would represent a major change in our political culture. Blending survey data and interviews with both elites and nonelites, Craig gives us a nuanced view of how people assess their leaders, how leaders see themselves, and how opinions converge and diverge on the issues that matter most: the economy, the environment, and, above all, the quality of our democracy.

Production, distribution, and consumption of digital use values occur today in a sociotechnological setting quite different from that characterizing the industrial economic system. Thanks to increasing access to hardware, software, and the Internet-the means of production in the digital economy-a growing multitude of digital immaterial labors contributes to the digital economy within a culture of sharing and (a culture of) nonexclusionary use of resources. As various online sharing platforms illustrate, digital immaterial labor constitutes a collective and collaborative productive force, an online general intellect, that cannot be reified in the means of production traditionally under the control of capital. This dynamic allows the online multitude to organize itself independently of the logic and management of capital. Capital, however, has been able to develop strategies, peculiar to this new socioeconomic system, that aim to control and profit from the collective intelligence created by digital immaterial labor. Adapted from the source document.

By way of introducing a collection of essays devoted to assessing the state of the discipline of political science, US political science is scrutinized. Key elements contained in its genesis are delineated: formal institutions, public administration, & law; a focus on Wilsonian political liberalism; & a commitment to the scientific project & a pragmatic view of the modern state. Attention turns to approaches guiding theorists & the staple questions driving inquiry: eg, state-society linkages, political citizenship, participation, choice, power, & state institutional functioning. While advancing, the state of the discipline is deemed wanting, as key questions remain unresolved. Further, the single model of the liberal democratic state that has emerged must now be reckoned with in the current insecure global environment. J. Zendejas

This episode continues a short series of podcasts on the place ofMarxism in International Relations. Last episode, we had Bryant Sculos, of Florida International University discussing his piece "Marx in Miami: Reflections on Teaching and the Confrontation with Ideology," co-authored with Sean Walsh, of Capital University. If you haven't listed to that episode yet, check it out. We got into some great discussion about various techniques and exercises that allow us to use Marx in the classroom, and create space in students' minds for thinking about the historically-situated nature of human consciousness. And I think what we took away from the conversation was this idea, simply, that while perhaps its not our role to ensure that our students buy into Marxism as a political program, there's nevertheless a really worthwhile payoff if instructors are willing to take the time to model for students how Marxism can help us think historically about who we are. Where do our ideas come from? What is subjectivity? Marx offers a range of useful thoughts on all these subjects.

Now, as a follow-up to last week's episode, THIS WEEK we are joined by Sebastian Sclofsky and Kevin Funk, who have a piece in the latest issue of International Studies Perspectives, 'The Specter That Haunts Political Science: The Neglect and Misreading of Marx in International Relations and Comparative Politics' (free version can be found here). If last week's episode was about the opportunities that Marxism offers, this week's episode is about the rather weak state of Marxism in political science, these days.

Sebastián Sclofsky is a PhD Candidate in the Political Science Department & Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. His research focuses on the politics of criminal justice and urban policing — Looking primarily at South Los Angeles and São Paulo, he examines how negative encounters with the police shape residents' racial identities, local space, and sense of second-class citizenship.

Kevin Funk is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Law and director of International Studies at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. And his main research focus right now is on the globalizing discourses of transnational corporations, and the emergence of micro-level zones of global-urban capital, like the "Sanhattan" neighborhood, in Santiago, Chile.

This paper aimed to map the current state of the structures of political science production and circulation in Argentina. This type of analysis is part of a series of studies that have analyzed the forms that peripheral science has adopted, its styles of production and publication circuits. We sought to answer a simple question that has complex answers: where does Argentina's political science publish and what characteristics do its researchers present - considering trajectories, strategies, and profiles - at CONICET? To this end, we analyzed the trajectories of 148 CONICET researchers in order to understand their publication practices and positioning in the Argentinean scientific field. At the same time, we examined the publication space of political science journals, their circuits and circulation orientations. Political Science in Argentina has a dynamic and consolidated structure. The historical trend that guided the trajectories of agents towards international spaces is contrasted with a recent trend of graduating from national universities and entering a scientific career at CONICET. Beyond the scientific policies of decentralization of science and technology activities, the concentration of research capacities in metropolitan areas is almost absolute. In the case of political science, the UBA-UNSAM-UNR node centralizes the largest number of researchers and, therefore, of political science production in the country. ; El presente trabajo tuvo por objetivo realizar un mapeo del estado actual de las estructuras de producción y circulación politológica en Argentina. Este tipo de análisis se inserta dentro de una serie de estudios que han analizado las formas que ha adoptado la ciencia periférica, sus estilos de producción y circuitos de publicación. Buscamos responder una sencilla pregunta que posee respuestas complejas: ¿dónde publica la ciencia política de Argentina y qué características presentan sus investigadores/as —considerando trayectorias, estrategias y perfiles— en el CONICET? Para ello, analizamos la trayectoria de 148 investigadores/as del CONICET con el fin de comprender sus prácticas de publicación y posicionamiento en el campo científico argentino. Al mismo tiempo, examinamos el espacio de publicación de revistas de ciencia política, sus circuitos y orientaciones de circulación. Se encontró que más allá de las políticas científicas de descentralización de las actividades de ciencia y técnica, la concentración de capacidades de investigación en las zonas metropolitanas es casi absoluta. Para el caso de la ciencia política, el nodo UBA-UNSAM-UNR centraliza la mayor cantidad de investigadores/as y, por tanto, de producción politológica del país.