Political Science and Political Thought: Political Science Treatises 2
In: European journal of political theory: EJPT, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 99-107
ISSN: 1474-8851
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In: European journal of political theory: EJPT, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 99-107
ISSN: 1474-8851
In: Harper torchbooks: the academy library TB1293
In: The Contemporary essays series
How does the social environment in which people are embedded impact their political behavior and attitudes? This dissertation provides substantive and methodological advances in answering this key question in political science research. Chapter 1 analyzes a get-out-the-vote field experiment involving more than 61 million individuals. The results show that the messages influenced political self-expression, information seeking, and real world voting behavior of millions of people. The effect of social information versus non-social information differed by characteristics of the treated individual such as age, education, relationship status, and the number of social contacts the individual has. These results suggest that while social information increases participation for overall, it is especially effective for subsets of the population. Chapter 2 analyzes the effect of one individual's turnout on that of her social contacts. Results indicate that when a friend votes an individual is about 7% more likely to vote. Chapter 3 develops a statistical model to estimate the ideology of politicians and their supporters using Facebook data about which users publicly support which political figures by 'liking' them on the site. Then, using this measure, I study the topography of ideology across a social network of more than 6 million people, and show that those individuals who are embedded in diverse ideological networks are less likely to turnout to vote than those in homogeneous social networks
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In: PS: political science & politics, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 27-30
Over two decades ago, anthropologist Gayle Rubin began a now-classic article with a deceptively simple declaration: "The time has come to think about sex" (1984). Although Rubin was not the first thinker to place sex at the center of her work, her systematic sketch of Western sexual ideology made it possible to think about the political ramifications of sex in new and productive ways by disentangling the physical acts of sex from gender and sexuality (i.e., how we understand, interpret, and ascribe meaning to those acts). Among her many useful insights was the recognition that sex and sexuality are part of a hierarchical value system that serves as the basis for other forms of social, economic, and political power. Sex is the starting point of all human life and, consequently, sexuality subtends all other institutions from marriage to families, communities, states, and international organizations. What Foucault (1978) called biopower—the regulation of bodies, including sex—has continued to change and expand, giving rise to new forms of biopolitics—the regulation of populations and sexuality. Such regulations include moral policing and criminal sanctions, biomedical intervention, family and immigration laws, and a host of other tools that have tended to establish heterosexuality as the only normal and sanctioned sexual behavior. Regulating sex, and particularly reproduction, is an essential objective of the state because, ultimately, sex and reproduction are key to how the state regulates the fundamental element of its own composition: citizenship.
In: Liberalism and the Emergence of American Political Science, S. 42-66
Machine generated contents note: PART I Science at the Turn of the Millennium -- 1 The Emergence of a Competitiveness Research and Development Policy Coalition and the Commercialization of Academic Science and Technology (1996) -- Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades 69 -- 2 Recent Science: Late-Modern and Postmodern (1997) -- Paul Forman 109 -- PART II Science Conceived as a Production Process -- 3 The Simple Economics of Basic Scientific Research -- (1959) -- Richard R. Nelson 151 -- 4 Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention (1962) -- Kenneth J. Arrow 165 -- PART III Science Conceived as a Problem of Information Processing -- 5 Note on the Theory of the Economy of Research (1879) -- Charles Sanders Peirce 183 -- 6 Charles Sanders Peirce's Economy of Research (1994) -- James R. Wible 191 -- 7 Toward a New Economics of Science (1994) -- Partha Dasgupta and Paul A. David 219 -- 8 The Organization of Cognitive Labor (1993) -- Philip Kitcher 249 -- PART IV Science Conceived as an Economic Network of Limited Agents -- 9 From Science as an Economic Activity to Socioeconomics of Scientific Research: The Dynamics of Emergent and Consolidated Techno-economic Networks -- Michel Callon 277 -- 10 The Microeconomics of Academic Science -- John Ziman 318 -- 11 A Formal Model of Theory Choice in Science (1999) -- William A. Brock and Steven N. Durlauf 341 -- 12 Scientists as Agents -- Stephen Turner 362 -- PART V Contours of the Globalized Privatization Regime -- 13 Making British Universities Accountable: In the Public Interest? -- Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap 387 -- 14 The Importance of Implicit Contracts in Collaborative Scientific Research -- Paula E. Stephan and Sharon G. Levin 412 -- 15 Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education (1998) -- David F. Noble 431 -- 16 The Road Not Taken: Revisiting the Original New Deal (2000) -- Steve Fuller 444 -- PART VI The Future of Scientific "Credit" -- 17 The Republic of Science: Its Political and Economic Theory (1969) -- Michael Polanyi 465 -- 18 The Instability of Authorship: Credit and Responsibility in Contemporary Biomedicine (1998) -- Mario Biagioli 486 -- 19 The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Some Thoughts on the Possibilities (1994) -- D. Wade Hands 515
Essays concerned with the current debate on how the field of politics ought to be restructured.
Written by a powerful international team of theorists, this book offers a sophisticated analysis of the central political concepts in the light of recent debates in political theory. All political argument employs political concepts. They provide the building blocks needed to construct a case for or against a given political position. To address such issues as whether or not development aid is too low, income tax too high, or how to cope with poverty and the distribution of wealth, citizens must develop views on what individuals are entitled to, what they owe to others, and the role of individual choice and responsibility in these areas. These matters turn on an understanding of concepts such as rights, equality and liberty and the ways they relate to each other. People of different political persuasions interpret such key political concepts in different ways. This book introduces students to some of the main interpretations, pointing out their strengths and weaknesses. It covers a broad range of the main concepts employed in contemporary political and theoretical debates. Separate chapters look at liberty, rights, social justice, political obligation, nationalism, punishment, social exclusion, legitimacy, the rule of law, multiculturalism, gender, public and private, democracy, environmentalism, international justice and just war. This book is perfect for students of political theory and political ideology, and indeed anyone approaching political theory for the first time.
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In: PS: political science & politics, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 27-31
ISSN: 0030-8269, 1049-0965
In: A Model DisciplinePolitical Science and the Logic of Representations, S. 20-51
In: European political science: EPS ; serving the political science community ; a journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 45-48
ISSN: 1680-4333
Provides an overview of Swedish political science education & research. It is noted that Sweden has not often been at the cutting edge of the discipline, but the importance of that is pondered. Some information on the Swedish Political Science Association & the major journal, Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, is offered. References. J. Zendejas