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'''Political science''' is best defined in comparison to [[PoliticalPhilosophy|political philosophy]]: one attempts to understand politics from first principles, reasoned outward, in a coherent and consistent theory; the other attempts to understand politics from observations and theories of what explains the variance therein. This page addresses the ''latter''.



== Public Choice and Social Choice Theory ==

 * [[PoliticalScience/PivotalPoliticsModel|Pivotal Politics Model]]

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 * [[PoliticalScience/CageDistanceFramework|CAGE Distance Framework]]
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== International Relations ==

 * [[PoliticalScience/BargainingModelOfWar|Bargaining Model of War]]
 * [[PoliticalScience/Constructivism|Constructivism]]
 * [[PoliticalScience/Institutionalism|Institutionalism]]
 * [[PoliticalScience/Rationalism|Rationalism]]
 * [[PoliticalScience/Realism|Realism]]



== Comparative Politics ==

 * resources for Comparative Politics on this wiki:
   * listings of [[CategoryState|states]] and [[CategoryCityState|city-states]]
   * listings of [[CategoryEmpire|empires]] (including ''de facto'' empires)



== Reading Notes ==

 * [[AnEconomicTheoryOfDemocracy|An Economic Theory of Democracy]], Anthony Downs, 1957
 * [[WhoGoverns|Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City]], Robert Dahl, 1961
 * [[TheCalculusOfConsent|The Calculus of Consent]], James M. Buchanon and Gordon Tullock, 1962
 * [[TheTheoryOfPoliticalCoalitions|The Theory of Political Coalitions]], William H. Riker, 1962
 * [[CongressmenInCommittees|Congressmen in Committees]], Richard F. Fenno, Jr., 1973
 * [[CongressTheElectoralConnection|Congress: The Electoral Connection]], David R. Mayhew, 1974
 * [[Autocracy]], Gordon Tullock, 1987
 * [[HardAndSoftLawInInternationalGovernance|Hard and Soft Law in International Governance]], Kenneth Abbott and Duncan Snidal, 2000
 * [[InternationalHumanRightsLawAndPracticeInLatinAmerica|International Human Rights Law and Practice in Latin America]], Ellen Lutz and Kathryn Sikkink, 2000
 * [[TheTragedyOfGreatPowerPolitics|The Tragedy of Great Power Politics]], John J. Mearsheimer, 2014 (2nd ed.)
 * [[CityDiplomacy|City Diplomacy: From City-States to Global Cities]], Raffaele Marchetti, 2021
 * [[EpistemicSuperimposition|Epistemic superimposition: the war in Ukraine and the poverty of expertise in international relations theory]], Jan Dutkiewicz and Jan Smolenski, 2023
 * [[ToHelpEndWarInUkraineTheQuadShouldBackIndiaToEngageRussia|To help end war in Ukraine, the Quad should back India to engage Russia]], Adarsh Badri, 2023
 * [[IsItTheMessageOrTheMessenger|Is It the Message or the Messenger? Examining Movement in Immigration Beliefs]], Hassan Afrouzi, Carolina Arteaga, and Emily Weisburst, 2024

Political Science

Political science is best defined in comparison to political philosophy: one attempts to understand politics from first principles, reasoned outward, in a coherent and consistent theory; the other attempts to understand politics from observations and theories of what explains the variance therein. This page addresses the latter.

Public Choice and Social Choice Theory

Political Economy

International Relations

Comparative Politics

  • resources for Comparative Politics on this wiki:

Reading Notes


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PoliticalScience (last edited 2026-02-13 15:46:11 by DominicRicottone)