= Political Science =

'''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''.

== Comparative Politics ==

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]]

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

== Political Economy ==

 * [[PoliticalScience/CageDistanceFramework|CAGE Distance Framework]]
 * [[PoliticalScience/Outbidding|Outbidding]]
 * [[PoliticalScience/WilsonLowiMatrix|Wilson-Lowi Matrix]]

== International Relations ==

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

== Miscellany ==

 * [[PoliticalScience/AffectivePolarization|Affective Polarization]]
 * [[PoliticalScience/GiniCoefficient|Gini coefficient]]
 * [[PoliticalScience/SouthernExceptionalism|Southern exceptionalism]]
 * Some resources on this wiki:
   * listings of [[CategoryState|states]] and [[CategoryCityState|city-states]]
   * listings of [[CategoryEmpire|empires]] (including ''de facto'' empires)

== Reading Notes ==

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

 * [[EnglandInTheAgeOfTheAmericanRevolution|England in the Age of the American Revolution]], Lewis Namier, 1931
 * [[HardAndSoftLawInInternationalGovernance|Hard and Soft Law in International Governance]], Kenneth Abbott and Duncan Snidal, 2000
 * [[MeasuringInternalPoliticalEfficacyInThe1988NationalElectionStudy|Measuring Internal Political Efficacy in the 1988 National Election Study]]; Richard G. Niemi, Stephen C. Craig, and Franco Mattei; 2014
 * [[EconomicSanctionsAsAForeignPolicyTool|Economic Sanctions as a Foreign Policy Tool]], Michael Klein and Daniel W. Drezner, 2024

== 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]]
 * [[MostImportantProblemDataset|MIPD]]
 * [[Polity]]
 * [[VarietiesOfDemocracy|V-Dem]]
 * [[WorldGovernanceIndicatorsProject|WGI]]
 * [[WorldValuesSurvey|WVS]]



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