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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''.
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== Political Philosophy ==

 * [[PoliticalSceince/Pluralism|Pluralism]]
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 * [[PoliticalScience/Outbidding|Outbidding]]
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== 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)


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 * [[PlunkittOfTammanyHall|Plunkitt of Tammany Hall]], William L. Riordon, 1905
 * [[AnEconomicTheoryOfDemocracy|An Economic Theory of Democracy]], Anthony Downs, 1957
 * [[CounteringGuerillaAttack|Countering Guerilla Attack]], Walt W. Rostow, 1961
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 * [[Autocracy]], Gordon Tullock, 1987  * [[TheTheoryOfPoliticalCoalitions|The Theory of Political Coalitions]], William H. Riker, 1962
 * [[PoliticalEntrepreneurshipAndPatternsOfDemocraticInstabilityInPluralSocieties|Political entrepreneurship and patterns of democratic instability in plural societies]], Alvin Rabushka, Kenneth A. Shepsle, 1971
 * [[PoliticsInPluralSocieties|Politics in plural societies]], Alvin Rabushka, Kenneth A. Shepsle, 1972
 * [[CongressmenInCommittees|Congressmen in Committees]], Richard F. Fenno, Jr., 1973
 * [[CongressTheElectoralConnection|Congress: The Electoral Connection]], David R. Mayhew, 1974
 * [[Autocracy|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
 * [[EighteenthCenturyBritishPremiers|Eighteenth-Century British Premiers: Walpole to the Younger Pitt]], Dick Leonard, 2010
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 * [[EpistemicSuperimposition|Epistemic superimposition: the war in Ukraine and the poverty of expertise in international relations theory]], Jan Dutkiewicz and Jan Smolenski, in Journal of International Relations and Development (2023)  * [[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
 * [[HasTheOutbiddingOnTradeProtectionismFinallyEnded|Has the Outbidding on Trade Protectionism Finally Ended?]], Daniel W. Drezner, 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 2026-03-10 22:28:31 by DominicRicottone)