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The future of politicial science : 100 perspectives

King Gary

The future of politicial science : 100 perspectives - London Routledge 2009 - 283p xiii

Table of Contents;
Introduction;
1. The United States: A Different Democracy, Arend Lijphart;
2. Taking Portraits or Group Photos?, Russell Dalton;
3. Why Political Theorists Should Think More Carefully About Leadership, Nannerl O. Keohane ;
4. The Leadership Gap, Mark A. Peterson;
5. Instrumental Value of Elite Memories on Past Violence during the mergence of a New State: Slovenian Experience, Anton Kramberger, Ana Barbic and Katja Boh;
6. Politicians are People, too, Philip Edward Jones;
7. Elite Tough Talk and the Tides of History, Henry E. Brady;
8. Representation as a Field of Study, Barry C. Burden;
9. Political Science: What Should We Know?, David Butler;
10. Dynamic Categories and the Context of Power, Jane Junn;
11. Politics as Learning, Hugh Heclo;
12. Rounding Up the Activists, Kent Jennings;
13. The Troubling Persistence of Injustice, Michael L. Frazer;
14. Making a Name for Oneself, Harvey Mansfield;
15. Political Variation across Contexts, Michael Jones-Correa;
16. Homo Politicus is Not an Island, Claudine Gay;
17. The Sociological Bases of Political Preferences and Behavior, Casey A. Klofstad;
18. Community Social Capital, Kristi Andersen ;
19. Tuned In, But Dropped Out, Carole Jean Uhlaner;
20. Cognition, Emotion and Selectivity in Political Communication in a Multi-Facetted World, Rational Choice and Political Culture, Robert H. Bates;
21. Who Wants War?, Ann Sartori ;
22. The Threat to Democracy, Lawrence R. Jacobs;
23. Nationalist Missions and the Democratic Citizen, Katherine Tate;
24. Something's Going On Here, but We Don't Know What It Is:
Measuring Citizens' Exposure to Politically-Relevant Information in the New Media Environment, Michael X. Delli Carpini;
25. What We Still Need to Know Why and How People Become Committed Democrats, Philip Oxhorn;
26. When We Could Do So Much Better: Democratic Commitment and Empirical Political Psychology, by Virginia Sapiro;
27. Political Science and the Future, James Q. Wilson;
28. Family Matters, David E. Campbell;
29. Where do the Premises of Political Choice Come From?, Daniel Carpenter 30. Immigration, Partisanship and Electoral Change, Norman H. Nie;
31. Decisions People Make in Small Groups, John Aldrich;
32. Why Do (Some) People Acquire Costly Political Knowledge?, Torben Iversen;
33. A Political View of Political Ideology, John Zaller;
34. Guess What? Voters are Smart, Gerald Pomper ;
35. Extra! Extra! Extra Info Needed with Survey Reporting, Andrea Louise Campbell ;
36. What Should Journalists and Politicians Know? Beyond the Margin of Error, Morris P. Fiorina ;
37. The Need for Survey Reporting Standards in Political Science, D. Sunshine Hillygus;
38. The Changing Evidence Base of Political Science Research, Gary King ;
39. FMRI and Public Opinion Research, Ikua Kabashima ;
40. Special Interest Politics, Jeffry A. Frieden ;
41. An Ever Fainter Voice, Jeffrey M. Berry ;
42. Exploring Political Inequality, Benjamin I. Page ;
43. Voice, and Then What?, Larry M. Bartels;
44. The Impact of Unequal Political Participation on Policy Outcome, Eric Schickler;
45. Participation Matters, Jan Leighley;
46. Participatory Distortion ($$) Takes Off!!, Philip Converse;
47. The Rashomon World of Money and Politics, Thomas E. Mann;
48. Does Rising Economic Inequality Matter, Christopher Jencks;
49. Redistribution without Representation and Representation without Redistribution, James E. Alt;
50. The Ideological Origins of Redistribution, Eric Nelson;
51. Reuniting Interests and Values, David C. Leege;
52. Using Research to Foster Democracy, Ken Stehlik-Berry;
53. "Moral Convictions, Religion, and Diversity: Our Political Atmosphere, William C. McCready;
54. Equality and Inclusiveness, Diversity and Conflict, John R. Petrocik;
55. The End of 'the Protestant Nation', Byron Shafer;
56. The Political Force of Group Consciousness, Bill Schneider;
57. Going Global: New challenges and opportunities in research on democratic participation and the civic culture, Pippa Norris;
58. The Effects of Immigration and Sending Countries Outreach on American Public Opinion and Political Behavior, Rodolfo O. de La Garza;
59. Exorcising Huntingtonian Specters, Ary Zolberg;
60. Adding-in Sex Discrimination to Legacies of Wrongdoing, Eileen McDonaugh;
61. Gender Inequality, Nancy Burns;
62. Gender Differences as the Basis for a Refoundation of the Social Sciences: The Political Integration of Women: Explaining Women’s Slow Advancement into Political Office, Michelle Swers;
63. Is American Becoming a More Class-Based Society?, Robert Putnam;
64. The NAACP Nobody Knows, Richard Vallelly;
65. At the Intersection of Inequalities, Shauna L. Shames;
66. The Professional Campaign, Ganesh Sitamaran;
67. What Politicians Actually Can do: A Modest Proposal for Reporting on Campaigns, Daniel Schlozman;
68. Elections: Five Rules for Commentators, John Mark Hansen;
69. Negative Ads, Cynical Public?, Arthur Sanders;
70. Independent Electoral Commissions, Nahomi Ichino;
71. Watch Out! The Units You are Comparing May Not be What They Used to be!, Philippe C. Schmitter;
72. Don't Stay Home: The Utility of Area Studies for Political Science Scholarship, by Jorge I. Dominguez;
73. Can We Really be Happy with the Study of Comparative Government?, Hans Daalder;
74. The Contingent Flaw of Majoritarian Systems, G. Bingham Powell, Jr.;
75. Religion and Politics, Goldie Shabad;
76. Study China!, Roderick MacFarquhar;
77. Soft Power and the Future of Asia, by Lucian Pye;
78. The Study of International Law, by Jens Meierhenrich;
79. The Second Image Reversed Revisited, Robert Keohane;
80. The Globalization Gap, James Rosenau;
81. Congress and the Scope of Democracy, Ira Katznelson;
82. 'Free Association': Traveling Ideas and the Study of Political Equality, Nancy Rosenblum;
83. To Participate or Deliberate —is that the Question?, Dennis F. Thompson;
84. Understanding Democracy as a Complex Adaptive System, Louise K.Comfort;
85. The Public Roots of Private Action: A New Look at Voting Costs, Susan B. Hansen;
86. On the Free Rider Problem, Jane Mansbridge;
87. Time and Action in the 21st Century, Anya Bernstein;
88. The Organizational 'Gap' in Political Science, Joseph LaPalombara;
89. The Sudden Birth of Sticky Institutions, 1890-1915, Gerald Gamm;
90. The Emerging Field of Education Policy, Paul Peterson;
91. American Politics and the Not-So-Benign Neglect of Criminal Justice, Traci Burch;
92. Law or Politics?, H. W. Perry, Jr.;
93. What is Public Policy?, Catherine E. Rudder;
94. Note to Politicians: Forget the Silver Bullet!, Kay Lehman Schlozman;
95. Rediscovering Complexity and Synthesis, Bear F. Braumoeller;
96. Why?, Kenneth A. Shepsle;
97. Path Dependence, Peter A. Hall;
98. Searching for a Politics of Space, Jennifer Hochschild;
99. The Question of Relevance, Joseph S. Nye, Jr.;
100. Can (Should) Political Science be a Policy Science?, Kenneth Prewitt;
Biography;
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