Local Government Observation: A Format for a General Education Political Science Class
In: Teaching Political Science, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 89-103
In: Teaching Political Science, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 89-103
In: American political science review, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 517-525
ISSN: 1537-5943
For some time, the growing stature of political science as an independent social science has been a notable feature in American universities. Yet, up to the present time, the categories of this new field of scientific endeavor have not found their way into the indexing departments of libraries, nor have they been recognized by indexers of other collections. Even the editors of encyclopedias, people of great learning and ability, have omitted some of the most significant topics of political science, because of the lack of any accepted index indicating the range of the field and focusing attention upon its primary categories. The American Political Science Review itself is confronted with the problem of a suitable subject-index. The growing complexity of all kinds of materials bearing upon the work of political scientists, and more particularly the increasing mass of public documents, has become more and more baffling. Even the skillful indexers of the Congressional Record, for example, seem unaware of the major topics of interest for political science, and thus no sign-posts of the usual kind have been made available to workers in our field.
In: American political science review, Band 31, S. 517-525
ISSN: 0003-0554
In: American political science review, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 615-620
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: American review of public administration: ARPA, Band 25, Heft 1
ISSN: 0275-0740
In: Western Political Science Association 2011 Annual Meeting Paper
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Working paper
In: American review of public administration: ARPA, Band 26, Heft 2
ISSN: 0275-0740
In: Journal of political science education, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 42-60
ISSN: 1551-2177
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 50-54
In: British journal of political science, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 155-172
ISSN: 1469-2112
There have been a number of attempts in recent years to define the subject-matter of political science and to provide a theoretical framework within which the discipline may be expected to develop. Among these, the work of David Easton occupies a leading place.1 This article discusses how successful Easton has been in adumbrating a general theory embracing the discipline. It then offers a rather looser and less ambitious framework within which the theories collectively called 'political science' may be placed and their interrelationships perceived.
In: Polity: the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 517
ISSN: 0032-3497
In: Polity, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 517-537
ISSN: 1744-1684
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 332-335
ISSN: 1537-5935
In: Peace research abstracts journal, Band 40, Heft 4, S. 427
ISSN: 0031-3599
In: Government & opposition: an international journal of comparative politics, Band 6, Heft 3, S. 277-302
ISSN: 1477-7053
PROFESSOR LAZARSFELD ONCE REFERRED TO SOCIOLOGY AS BEING IN A sense a residuary legatee, the surviving part of a very general study, out of which specializations have successively been shaped.The same might be said of political science. In the West the first deliberate and reflective studies of political life were made in Greece at the end of the th century BC, and in the succeeding century. The histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, some of the pamphlets attributed to Xenophon, above all the normative and empirical studies of Plato and Aristotle were among the direct ancestors of contemporary political science. Parallel examples are to be found in the intellectual history of China, India and Islam. It seems that at certain stages in the development of great societies questions of legitimacy, power and leadership assume supreme importance; and intense intellectual effort, using the best analytical tools available, is devoted to the study of man as brought to a focus in the study of politics.