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== Comparative Politics ==
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Pretty much everything where states are the unit of analysis.

 * [[PoliticalScience/CityPolitics|City Politics]]
 * [[PoliticalScience/Democratization|Democratization]]
 * [[PoliticalScience/InternationalDevelopment|International Development]]

== Political Parties and Movements ==

Comparative politics methods applied to non-states. There is some overlap with public choice theory (esp. [[PoliticalScience/InstitutionalDesign|institutional design]]).

 * [[PoliticalScience/CriticalElectionsTheory|Critical Elections Theory]]
 * [[PoliticalScience/IssuesEvolutionModel|Issues Evolution Model]]
 * [[PoliticalScience/PartyPolarization|Party Polarization]]
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Public choice and social choice are highly interconnected. In general, public choice seeks to be strictly positive, while social choice leans into [[PoliticalPhilosophy|philosophy]] and normative study. Like, 'given a voting system, which agent has most control' vs. 'what is the most fair voting system'. But the theorists fundamentally speak the same language, and it's more coherent to group them together by field of study.

 * [[PoliticalScience/InstitutionalDesign|Institutional Design]]
 * [[PoliticalScience/MedianVoterTheorem|Median Voter Theorem]]
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 * [[PoliticalScience/ConflictTheory|Conflict theory]]
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 * [[PoliticalScience/RallyAroundTheFlagEffect|Rally around the flag effect]]
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== Miscellany ==
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== Comparative Politics ==

 * resources for Comparative Politics on this wiki:
 * [[PoliticalScience/AffectivePolarization|Affective Polarization]]
 * [[PoliticalScience/GiniCoefficient|Gini coefficient]]
 * [[PoliticalScience/SouthernExceptionalism|Southern exceptionalism]]
 * Some resources on this wiki:
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 * [[PlunkittOfTammanyHall|Plunkitt of Tammany Hall]], William L. Riordon, 1905 Note: reading notes for the above topics are listed on the respective pages, ''not here''.
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 * [[AnEconomicTheoryOfDemocracy|An Economic Theory of Democracy]], Anthony Downs, 1957
 * [[CounteringGuerillaAttack|Countering Guerilla Attack]], Walt W. Rostow, 1961
 * [[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
 * [[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
 * [[ExitVoiceAndLoyalty|Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States]], Albert O. Hirschman, 1970
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 * [[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
 * [[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
 * [[HasTheOutbiddingOnTradeProtectionismFinallyEnded|Has the Outbidding on Trade Protectionism Finally Ended?]], Daniel W. Drezner, 2024
 * [[MeasuringInternalPoliticalEfficacyInThe1988NationalElectionStudy|Measuring Internal Political Efficacy in the 1988 National Election Study]]; Richard G. Niemi, Stephen C. Craig, and Franco Mattei; 2014
 * [[RacialConflictInGlobalSociety|Racial Conflict in Global Society]], John Stone and Polly Rizova, 2014
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 * [[ACaseForCongress|A Case for Congress: Shared Power for a Divided Society]], Frances E. Lee, 2024  * [[UnconditionalLoyalty|Unconditional Loyalty: The Survival of Minority Autocracies]], Salam Alsaadi, 2025

== Data Notes ==

 * Relevant government agencies, which link to many data notes:
   * [[UnitedStates/BureauOfJusticeStatistics|BJS]]
   * [[UnitedStates/BureauOfLaborStatistics|BLS]]
   * [[UnitedStates/CensusBureau|Census Bureau]]
 * [[AliceProject|ALICE Project]]
 * [[AmericanNationalElectionStudies|ANES]]
 * [[UnitedStates/CentralIntelligenceAgency/WorldFactbook|CIA World Factbook]]
 * [[ComparativeStudyOfElectoralSystems|CSES]]
 * [[EuropeanElectionStudies|EES]]
 * [[EuropeanSocialSurvey|ESS]]
 * [[FreedomInTheWorld|Freedom House's Freedom in the World]]
 * [[GeneralSocialSurvey|GSS]]
 * [[InternationalSocialSurveyProgramme|ISSP]]
 * [[MostImportantProblemDataset|MIPD]]
 * [[Polity]]
 * [[VarietiesOfDemocracy|V-Dem]]
 * [[WorldGovernanceIndicatorsProject|WGI]]
 * [[WorldValuesSurvey|WVS]]

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.

Comparative Politics

Pretty much everything where states are the unit of analysis.

Political Parties and Movements

Comparative politics methods applied to non-states. There is some overlap with public choice theory (esp. institutional design).

Public Choice and Social Choice Theory

Public choice and social choice are highly interconnected. In general, public choice seeks to be strictly positive, while social choice leans into philosophy and normative study. Like, 'given a voting system, which agent has most control' vs. 'what is the most fair voting system'. But the theorists fundamentally speak the same language, and it's more coherent to group them together by field of study.

Political Economy

International Relations

Miscellany

Reading Notes

Note: reading notes for the above topics are listed on the respective pages, not here.

Data Notes


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