Comparative Political Science: An Inventory and Assessment since the 1980's

1999 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Prentice Hull
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Comparative Political Science

scholarly journals "China" as an Analytical Concept: A New Beginning for Chinese Political Science

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiangmin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Chinese Political Science ◽  
Knowledge Map ◽  
New Beginning ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
The One ◽  
Comparative Political Science ◽  
Internal Context ◽  
American Left

AbstractThe emergence in recent years of a large number of institutional concepts in the world of Chinese political science indicates that Chinese political science is experiencing an "internal shift" that is different from the complete Westernization of the past. Chinese political scientists are seeking theoretical explanations for China's political development based on China's internal context and are looking to provide intellectual arguments for China's modern state building. In this paper, it is proposed that the core of this internal shift of Chinese political science is the consciousness of "China" as an analytical concept, and that China is not only an object of description, but also an analytical perspective for explaining "what is China". Such a view is different from that held by the European and American left and pure traditional researchers or reactionists. On the one hand, this paradigm provides more universal political knowledge in the sense of comparative political science; on the other hand, it can advance Chinese political research by drawing a clearer and more accurate knowledge map of Chinese politics. The emergence of institutional concepts in Chinese political science implies that Chinese political science as a discipline is increasingly moving from the "form" of discipline establishment to the "content" of "what is China". This signifies a real new beginning.

Variances in the development of justice: com parative analysis of the leading Western court systems

10.12737/5075 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Екатерина Наквакина ◽  
Yekatyerina Nakvakina
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
Medieval History ◽  
Court System ◽  
Foreign Experience ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Comparative Political Science

The article deals with the problem of differences in the structure and functioning of court systems in the certain countries. Examples of these differences trace to the Ancient and Medieval history. Some model of explanation is proposed. Differences and interpretation of them are demonstrated concerning the contemporary court systems of the leading Western countries, including Great Britain, France, the USA, Germany, Scandinavian countries. The author concludes that reception of this or that foreign experience concerning Russian court system must be very carefully based upon full comparativist analysis touching not only comparative law, but comparative state studying and comparative political science.

scholarly journals Jak zmierzyć demokrację? Teoretyczne i metodologiczne podstawy budowy skal demokracji politycznej w politologii porównawczej

2018 ◽  
pp. 97-108
Author(s):  
Wiktor SZEWCZAK
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Comparative Analyses ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Comparative Political Science ◽  
Democracy Measurement

The author of the paper undertakes to present and analyze one of the research instruments applied by comparative political science in quantitative surveys, namely scales of democracy (sometimes referred to as indices or factors of democracy). This instrument is quite common in Western, in particular Anglo-Saxon political science, whereas it remains relatively unknown in Polish political science. The aim of the paper is therefore to introduce the reader to this theoretical and methodological construct. In order to achieve this aim the author indicates the possible uses of scales of democracy and the areas of research that apply them. He also analyzes methodological problems related to the development and application of scales of democracy. Although they offer a useful tool in comparative analyses, the essence of this instrument may raise certain methodological and epistemological doubts. Therefore it is significant to maintain the utmost diligence when developing these scales, which must be based on the application of advanced statistical instruments and research algorithms. On the basis of the conclusions of G. L. Munck and J. Verkuilen, the author presents a model process for developing scales of democracy and demonstrates the challenges faced by the researcher trying to develop such scales. The last part of the paper discusses the place of the issue of democracy measurement in Polish political science. The author claims that Polish researchers’ interest in this issue does not correspond to its significance and the potential advantages that could be obtained.

Comparative Approach in Legal Policy

10.12737/392 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Александр Малько ◽  
Aleksander Malko ◽  
Алексей Саломатин ◽  
Alexey Salomatin
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
Legal Policy ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Comparative Political Science ◽  
Legal Mechanism

Legal Policy as a new direction in Legal Sciences is to help in transformation of legal mechanism of the state and all the legal life. It has become extremely important thanks to extreme complexities of post-modernizing society under circumstances of erosion of state sovereignty, intensive communication and spreading of legal information, civil involvement in legislative process. But only applying of comparative method in the form of Comparative Law, Comparative State Studying, Comparative Political Science can make Legal Policy more effective and precise.

Chasing the Meaning of ‘Post-communism’: a Transitional Phenomenon or Something to Stay?

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-283
Author(s):  
Ghia Nodia
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Political Science ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
New Politics ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
New States ◽  
Post Communism ◽  
Comparative Political Science

Ian Bremmer and Ray Taras, eds., New States, New Politics: Building the Post-Soviet Nations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 743 pp., ISBN 0–521–57101–4Bruno Coppieters, Alexei Zverev and Dmitri Trenin, eds., Commonwealth and Independence in Post-Soviet Eurasia (London: Frank Cass, 1998), 232 pp., ISBN 0–714–64480–3Leslie Holmes, Post-Communism: an Introduction (Oxford: Polity Press, 1997), 260 pp., ISBN 0–745–61311–xMichael Mandelbaum, ed., Post-Communism: Four Perspectives (US Council of Foreign Relations, 1996), 208 pp., ISBN 0–876–09186–9Ilya Prizel, National Identity and Foreign Policy: Nationalism and Leadership in Poland, Russia and Ukraine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 443 pp., ISBN 0–521–57157–xRichard Rose, William Mishler and Christian Haerpfer, Democracy and Its Alternatives: Understanding Post-Communist Societies (Oxford: Polity Press, 1998), 270 pp., ISBN 0–745–61926–6Barnett R. Rubin and Jack Snyder, Post-Soviet Political Order (London/New York: Routledge, 1998), 201 pp., ISBN 0–415–17068–0Graham Smith, Vivien Law, Andrew Wilson, Annette Bohr and Edward Allworth, Nation-Building in Post-Soviet Borderlands: The Politics of National Identities (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 304 pp., ISBN 0–521–59045–0Vladimir Tismaneanu, Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism, and Myth in Post-Communist Europe (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998), 217 pp., ISBN 0–691–04826–6Gordon Wightman, ed., Party Formation in East-Central Europe: Post-Communist Politics in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria (Vermont: Edward Elgar, 1995), 270 pp., ISBN 1–858–898132–8It is now about 10 years since the communist bloc ceased to exist (1989 is the year when communism was defeated in central-eastern Europe, and in 1991 its bastion – the Soviet Union – fell). What it left behind are a couple of die-hard communist survivor-states, an urge to ‘rethink’ or ‘re-define’ many fundamental concepts of political science, and a large swathe of land that is still to be properly categorised in registers of comparative political science. ‘Post-communism’ is the most popular term to cover this territory. But does it refer to something real today, or does it just express some kind of intellectual inertia? How much do the ‘post-communist countries’ still have in common with each other and to what extent are they different from any others?

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 152-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Bächtiger ◽  
John Parkinson
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Mass Democracy ◽  
Democratic Principles ◽  
Comparative Political Science ◽  
Citizen Deliberation ◽  
Exclusive Focus

The book concludes with a call to repoliticize deliberative democracy by moving away from an exclusive focus on ‘safe havens’ like minipublics, or environments in which administrative imperatives dominate, and engage more effectively with mass democracy, and thus with comparative political science. It shows how the authors’ reconceptualization of deliberative democracy—its contingent, performative, and distributed nature—is directed to that goal, reconnecting deliberation with democratic principles without denying the importance of direct citizen deliberation. It closes by imagining a deliberative society that is challenged by ‘post-truth’ politics, but argues that an account that puts citizens’ practices of meaning-making at the heart of deliberation reveals effective routes out of the challenges.

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