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Karakoc, Julide/0000-0002-9365-4075 ; WOS:000608943200001 ; This article discusses the impact of political transformations on political science in Turkey during the Justice and Development Party (AKP) period from 2002 to the present, with a particular focus on the experiences of political scientists. After first taking power and in accordance with its concerns about attaining domestic and international legitimacy, AKP launched a democratization process by implementing several reforms leading toward EU membership. During this process, the boundaries of politics were broadened, enabling political discussion of certain taboo topics. However, this trend was reversed after AKP's authoritarian populist tendencies strengthened. The party's growing anti-intellectualist stance has also made scholars the target of the government's populist discourse. These circumstances make it critical to examine the challenges Turkey's political scientists experience since their discipline is directly influenced by the boundaries of what is political. This study therefore explores these challenges through ten in-depth interviews conducted with political scientists. It finds that political scientists mostly engage in self-censorship to protect themselves under Turkey's populist authoritarian atmosphere, which has narrowed down in-class discussion and research agendas leading to the impoverishment of the discipline in Turkey.

New Political Science, a leading section of the American Political Science Association for more than forty years, condemns Glenn Beck's dangerous and inflammatory mischaracterizations of Frances Fox Piven. Professor Piven, who has been a member of New Political Science since its founding in 1967, is an internationally-recognized scholar and activist. Piven, and her now-deceased husband and co-author Richard Cloward, have devoted their careers and lives to improving the political and economic opportunities of ordinary Americans, especially those living in poverty. Adapted from the source document.

Beauchamp reviews 'Basic Interests: The Importance of Groups in Politics and Political Science' by Frank R. Baumgartner and Beth L. Leech.

Despite increasing research on comparative local government, the resulting literature remains disappointing in that it is difficult to generalize across the range of diffuse studies. The main problem is the lack of a common framework to conduct such research and into which results can be placed and built upon. Partly, this is a consequence of insufficient attention to the requirements of building a classification system that can serve as a framework. In the spirit of contributing to the conceptual and methodological development of the literature on comparative local government, I set forth criteria for a classification system, review and assess the literature with respect to these criteria, and suggest a possible approach for building an empirically based classification system for local government that can serve as a common framework.

At head of title: The Dimensionality of Nations Project, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Mode of access: Internet.

ABSTRACT We provide the first replication study of political science research published in Brazil by attempting to replicate every quantitative article published in five major Brazilian journals between 2012 and 2016. We also tested whether replication rates varied between established fields, more traditional and where the use of quantitative data is more common, and emerging fields. Our results show that transparency and reproduction are still in a development stage in Brazilian Political Science. Of the 650 articles reviewed, we asked for data to 197 quantitative articles. From those, only 28% agreed to share datasets and computed codes. We were able to attempt a replication for only 14%, and successfully reproduce the results of less than 5%. We conclude by suggesting the adoption of transparency and replicability procedures that are standard in other scientific communities.