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Pretty much everything where states are the unit of analysis. This field's methods are essentially [[Statistics/DecisionTrees|decision trees]]. The body of quantitative data is poor. Analysis rests on identifying novel partitions that better predict or describe outcomes, and then re-testing hypotheses after a few decades have generated new data.
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 * [[PoliticalScience/CityPolitics|City Politics]]  * [[PoliticalScience/CityPolitics|City politics]]
 * [[PoliticalScience/CriticalElectionsTheory|Critical elections theory]]
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 * [[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/ElectoralSystems|Electoral systems]]
 * [[PoliticalScience/GiniCoefficient|Gini coefficient]]
 * [[PoliticalScience/InternationalDevelopment|International development]]
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 * [[PoliticalScience/RelativeDeprivationTheory|Relative deprivation theory]]
 * [[PoliticalScience/SouthernExceptionalism|Southern exceptionalism]]
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 * [[PoliticalScience/GiniCoefficient|Gini coefficient]]
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 * [[PoliticalScience/SouthernExceptionalism|Southern exceptionalism]]
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   * listings of [[CategoryState|states]] and [[CategoryCityState|city-states]]    * listings of [[CategoryState|states]] and [[CategoryCityState|city-states]] throughout history
   * listings of current [[CategoryCity|cities]]
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 * [[JapanIn1994|Japan in 1994: Out with the Old, in with the New?]], Michael Blaker, 1995
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 * [[RacialConflictInGlobalSociety|Racial Conflict in Global Society]], John Stone and Polly Rizova, 2014
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 * [[StanceDetection|Stance detection: a practical guide to classifying political beliefs in text]], Michael Burnham, 2024
 * [[RacialTropesInTheForeignPolicyBureaucracy|Racial Tropes in the Foreign Policy Bureaucracy: A Computational Text Analysis]]; Austin Carson, Eric Min, and Maya Van Nuys; 2024
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 * [[MeasuringLegislatorsIdeologicalPositionInLargeChambersUsingPairwiseComparisons|Measuring legislators’ ideological position in large chambers using pairwise-comparisons]], Christian Breunig and Benjamin Guinaudeau, 2025
 * [[SharedDemographicCharacteristicsDoNotReliablyFacilitatePersuasionInInterpersonalConversations|Shared Demographic Characteristics Do Not Reliably Facilitate Persuasion in Interpersonal Conversations: Evidence from Eight Experiments]]; David E. Broockman, Joshua L. Kalla, Nicholas Ottone, Erik Santoro, and Amanda Weiss; 2025
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 * [[CorrelatesOfWar|Correlates of War]]

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

This field's methods are essentially decision trees. The body of quantitative data is poor. Analysis rests on identifying novel partitions that better predict or describe outcomes, and then re-testing hypotheses after a few decades have generated new data.

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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