Internationalization of the Political Science Major: A Comparative Analysis of Undergraduate Course Requirements and Offerings

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Mezzell
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Political Science ◽  
The Political ◽  
Science Major

scholarly journals A New Approach to the Question of the Political Spectrum Polarization

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Gindler
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Individual Freedom ◽  
Mathematical Apparatus ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Wealth Redistribution ◽  
Political Spectrum

The article introduces a new approach to the problem of political spectrum polarization. Political science has introduced a multitude of spectrograms based on different factors, dimensions, axes, and cardinal points. Most often the graphics do not complement each other, and it seems that each of them describes a completely different reality. There was an urgent need to conduct an objective analysis of political philosophies and find the factors that influence the political spectrum polarization. For these purposes, the Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) was used, as it allows to introduce a fraction of objectivity due to the use of a formalized mathematical apparatus of the theory of sets. Thirteen main political doctrines were analyzed and obtained that spectrum polarization depends on three conditions: attitude to private property, individual freedom, and wealth redistribution. As the factors that influence the political spectrum polarization were firmly determined, it became possible to build a spectrogram unambiguously.

Nekropolityka: Polityczny wymiar pogrzebów polskich pisarzy na przykładzie sprowadzenia do Polski prochów Juliusza Słowackiego w 1927 roku oraz Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza w 1988 roku

1970 ◽  
Vol 22 (297) ◽  
pp. 135-158
Author(s):  
Paweł Marek Mrowiński
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Funeral Ritual ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

The article is devoted to comparative analysis of two repatriations: bringing ashes of Juliusz Słowacki in 1927 and bringing remains of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz in 1988. Both these events, being socio-political performances, fit into the broader concept of necropolitics, in which they are analyzed. The article compares the causes of the political nature of these ceremonies, their conduct, public reception and the effectiveness of counteracting the socio-political crisis, which was one of the main reasons for reaching for the funeral ritual by the rulers. The main purpose of the article, in addition to the comparative analysis of the above elements, is to emphasize the political dimension of mourning ceremonies, which can successfully be the subject of research in political science.

scholarly journals Integrating Gender into the Political Science Core Curriculum

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (02) ◽  
pp. 238-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin C. Cassese ◽  
Angela L. Bos ◽  
Lauren E. Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Core Curriculum ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Undergraduate Curriculum ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
The Political ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
New Research ◽  
Science Major ◽  
The Impact

The New Research on Gender in Political Psychology Conference brought together new and experienced teachers with interests in gender politics. The conference session “Teaching Gender throughout the Curriculum” generated a great deal of discussion concerning the pedagogical practice of gender mainstreaming. Gender mainstreaming—the integration of gendered content into courses required for a major—was recognized as one of 11 recommendations for reforming the undergraduate political science curriculum in the 1991 APSA report “Liberal Learning an The Political Science Major: A Report to the Profession” (popularly referred to as the Wahlke Report). Little information is available on the prevalence of gender courses in the undergraduate curriculum, but the data that does exist suggest such courses are uncommon (Brandes et al. 2001). We found virtually no data on the practice of gender mainstreaming in political science and little data in the way of assessing the impact of gendered content when students are exposed to it. This absence of data suggests gender mainstreaming has not emerged as a serious priority for curricular reform.

Comparative Constitutionalism and Good Governance in the Commonwealth: An Eastern and Southern African Perspective

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 241-243
Author(s):  
Timothy M Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Comprehensive Index ◽  
African Perspective

Comparative Constitutionalism and Good Governance in the Commonwealth: An Eastern and Southern African Perspective, John Hatchard, Muna Ndulo and Peter Slinn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. xxv, 361This is a magisterial tome in both substance and style. It is comprehensive, almost encyclopaedic; it also presents the perspective of “constitutional lawyers” (4), at least until the “retreat” towards the political science in the concluding, thirteenth chapter (310). Reflective of their trade, the trio of authors include lists of cases, constitutions, statutes and other instruments, with page references, as well as a comprehensive index of almost 20 pages. The volume presents the significant conceptual advances in comparative constitutionalism in anglophone Africa since independence, including democratic pressures towards “good governance” advanced through the Commonwealth nexus (1); but it also comes to lament the continuing existential constraints on “constitutional governance” (308). It offers welcome comparative analysis of a dozen countries and myriad regimes over four decades.

A Coordinating Course in the Political Science Major

1957 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 1178-1182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Garfinkel ◽  
James F. Tierney
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
The Political ◽  
Science Major

Profile of a Political Science Major: Bryn Mawr

1986 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 6-7
Author(s):  
Stephen G. Salkever ◽  
Bryn Mawr
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Bryn Mawr ◽  
Good Thing ◽  
The Political ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Relative Lack ◽  
Science Major

The political science major requirements at Bryn Mawr are characterized by a great deal of flexibility. This is at first glance a good thing, but on second thought we may begin to feel a bit guilty about our relative lack of structure, as though we were getting away with something—especially in the context of the Bryn Mawr ethos in which rigidity and departmental insularity are generally taken to be the surest signs of academic excellence. (The really best, most respectable, majors are the toughest—i.e., the ones that require students to take the most courses within the department.) Is the political science major at Bryn Mawr respectable? Or does this department treat its students as the pastry cooks in Plato's Gorgias treat children, stuffing them with the yummies they foolishly desire, and so easily defeating the heroic attempts of good doctors to persuade the young to take the salutary medicine their health requires?

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