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== Political Philosophy ==

 * [[PoliticalSceince/Pluralism|Pluralism]]
'''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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 * [[PoliticalScience/Outbidding|Outbidding]]
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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
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 * [[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)  * [[EpistemicSuperimposition|Epistemic superimposition: the war in Ukraine and the poverty of expertise in international relations theory]], Jan Dutkiewicz and Jan Smolenski, 2023
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 * [[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.

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