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  Encyclopedia: Political science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Political science is a social science discipline that deals with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior.
Political science, as one of the social sciences, uses methods and techniques that relate to the kinds of inquiries sought: primary sources such as historical documents and official records, secondary sources such as scholarly journal articles, survey research, statistical analysis, and model building.
Integrating political studies of the past into a unified discipline is an ongoing project, and the history of political science has provided a rich field for the growth of both normative and positive political science, with each part of the discipline sharing some historical predecessors.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Political-science   (5245 words)

  
 Midwest Political Science Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The MPSA is a national organization with a membership of over three thousand political science professors, students, and public administrators.
Founded in 1939, the MPSA is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all areas of political science.
In April of each year, the MPSA holds one of the largest political science conferences, with over 3,400 presenters from across the United States and around the world.
www.indiana.edu /~mpsa   (177 words)

  
 Association of Chinese Political Studies (ACPS)
Political Science and International Studies, is a non-profit academic organization registered in the United States with tax exempt status.
ACPS was founded in 1986 by a group of Chinese scholars and students of political science and international relations in the U.S. to promote academic exchange among Chinese scholars and American scholars of China studies.
In 1995, the organization changed its name to Association of Chinese Political Studies to allow non-ethnic Chinese to become members so that the organization is for all who study Chinese politics.
acps.sfsu.edu   (183 words)

  
 IHS :: Tim Gordinier, Institute for Humanist Studies Public Policy Director   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gordinier received his doctorate in Political Science from the University of Albany in May of 2000, focusing on constitutional law and specifically on the religion clauses of the First Amendment.
Using arguments grounded in democratic and constitutional theory, an originalist historical understanding of the First Amendment, and the proper role of the judiciary in the American political system, he challenged the popular assumption that the First Amendment automatically requires that religious groups be exempted from secular laws that incidentally interfere with their practices.
Gordinier is available to discuss the mission, purpose, and activities of IHS, humanist philosophy in general, constitutional and political issues relating to religious freedom and the separation of church and state, civil liberties, federalism, and the separation of powers.
humaniststudies.org /tgbio.html   (391 words)

  
 American Political Science Association (APSA)
Founded in 1903, American Political Science Association, is the leading professional organization for the study of political science and serves more than 15,000 members in over 80 countries.
APSA extends its deepest sympathies to all who have lost loved ones, homes and livelihoods due to the destruction of Hurricane Katrina.
APSA, the Southern Political Science Association (SPSA), and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) are coordinating efforts in the discipline to assist political scientists, graduate students and departments affected by the disaster in the Gulf region.
www.apsa.com   (235 words)

  
 CSC - The Unraveling of Scientific Materialism
Although Lewontin wants the public to accept science as the only source of truth, he freely admits that mainstream science itself is not free of the hokum that Sagan so often found in fringe science.
We might more accurately term them "materialists employing science." And if materialism is true, then some materialistic theory of evolution has to be true simply as a matter of logical deduction, regardless of the evidence.
When the National Academy of Sciences appoints a committee to advise the public on evolution, it consists of persons picked in part for their scientific outlook, which is to say their a priori acceptance of materialism.
www.discovery.org /scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=18&isFello...   (2195 words)

  
 Record of American Democracy (ROAD) Project
To put it differently, if you were an ambitious graduate student in the late 1940s or before interested in the quantitative study of American politics, you would probably be drawing maps, doing detailed studies of local politics.
The ROAD data should make possible many new studies of legislative redistricting, and associated analyses and forecasts of political and racial fairness, compactness, the consequences of equal population constraints on gerrymanderers, and related issues.
Finally, this is the first data set to be generally available to the academic community that is on par in terms of quality and quantity with the data politicians and political strategists have been using for decades to target campaign resources.
data.fas.harvard.edu /ROAD   (1180 words)

  
 NORC
Young people from all over the nation will be contacted and asked to complete a telephone interview that covers political, cultural, and social ideas and experiences in order to help understand and begin to represent the perspectives and opinions of young people in the United States.
The Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR) is a biennial survey of 40,000 science and engineering doctorate recipients, and the study is the only source of national data about this important population in the United States.
The latest report shows that a large majority of Americans favor a wide range of policies designed to regulate firearms, promote gun safety, and keep guns out of the hands of criminals.
www.norc.uchicago.edu   (1446 words)

  
 Oxford Journals | Social Sciences | Political Analysis
'The relatively new field of political methodology is growing exponentially; is improving empirical work in every field of the discipline; and is even making major contributions to empirical and methodological scholarship well outside the diffuse borders of political science.
Political Analysis chronicles these exciting developments by publishing the most sophisticated scholarship in the field.
The Society for Political Methodology and the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association
pan.oupjournals.org   (104 words)

  
 Northeastern Political Science Association - Department of Political Science - College of Arts & Sciences - Seton ...
The Northeastern Political Science Association (NPSA) is composed of political scientists in the nine states of New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Proposals are invited in all areas of political theory, political philosophy, and political thought broadly defined.
This section further seeks proposals on the future of the profession and professional education in political science, including approaches to preparing new professionals for academic and non-academic positions.
artsci.shu.edu /polisci/npsa.htm   (1036 words)

  
 Politics1 - Guide to American Political Parties
Thus, the AHP describes itself as "a political party that adopts the Bible as its political textbook and is unashamed to be explicitly Christian...
Marxist political organizer James Harris was the SWP Presidential nominee in 1996 (ballot status in 11 states - 8,500 votes - 0.01%) and 2000 (ballot status in 14 states - 7,378 votes - 9th place - 0.01%).
Frustrated by traditional partisan politics and the quality of national media coverage of elections, this party proposes to seek "direct input" from the public to mold this new politically centrist party into a vehicle that unifies America in the 21st Century.
www.politics1.com /parties.htm   (9731 words)

  
 The Claremont Institute: Was Leo Strauss Wrong About John Locke?
To Strauss, the key insight of Hobbes's thinking is the moral superiority of fear to pride: Human pride is vanity, to Hobbes, and is the truest and deepest cause of the war of all against all that is implicit in human relations and the chief cause of political misery.
That basis, evident already in Hobbes's humanistic phase and especially in his preface to and translation of Thucydides, is a judgment concerning the moral justification of fear and the moral pestilence of pride.
The new moral attitude remains the ground; the new science is the super-structure.
www.claremont.org /writings/02apsa_stoner.html   (2892 words)

  
 Resources of Scholarly Societies - Political Science
African Association of Political Science = Association Africaine de Sciences Politiques [In English and French.]
Dansk Selskab for Statskundskab = Danish Political Science Association [In Danish.]
Law and Society Association ["Members bring training in law, sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology, economics, and history as well as in other related areas."]
www.lib.uwaterloo.ca /society/polisci_soc.html   (584 words)

  
 Political Studies Association
The Political Studies Association exists to develop and promote the study of politics.
Founded in 1950, it is the leading Association in its field in the UK, with an international membership including academics in political science and current affairs, theorists and practitioners, policy makers, researchers and students in higher education.
The Political Studies Association is happy to provide links to conferences, seminar and workshops which relate to areas of interest of membership.
www.psa.ac.uk   (274 words)

  
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Panel 2 The Politics of New Americans: Studying Asian American Political Engagement
Panel 5 Thomas Hobbes and the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns
Panel 1 The Politics of Immigration and Diversity: Italy in Comparative Perspective
apsanet.org /mtgs/program/relgroups.cfm   (1132 words)

  
 BPG Home Page
Activities of the British Politics Group include annual sponsorship of panels on British politics at the largest political science meeting in the world, that of the American Political Science Association, a quarterly newsletter, an annual bibliography of books on British politics published in the United Kingdom.
British Politics Group panels at the APSA in recent years have featured a variety of topics and participants.
Panels have included such diverse topics as analysis of recent general elections, the legacy of Thatcherism, Northern Ireland, party politics, the future of socialism, representation of gender and ethnic groups, law and order, reform of the civil service, Britain and the European Union, the role of parliament, and the teaching of British politics.
www.uc.edu /bpg   (439 words)

  
 International Studies Association (ISA)
A group of scholars and practitioners founded the International Studies Association (ISA) in 1959 to pursue mutual interests in international studies.
Representing eighty countries, ISA has over three thousand members worldwide and is the most respected and widely known scholarly association in this field.
We cooperate with 53 international studies organizations in 32 countries, and we are a member of the International Social Science Council, and have nongovernmental consultative status with the United Nations.
www.isanet.org   (278 words)

  
 APSA 1997 - Program in Race, Ethnicity and Politics
Papers on this panel critically assess the status of urban political incorporation in the 1990s, from empirical and theoretical standpoints, for African American, Latino, Asian Pacific Islander, and gay and lesbian communities.
Authors on this panel extend these perspectives to the politics of multicultural education, racial and ethnic diversity, and ethnic studies programs, asking how institutional interests interact -- or conflict -- with the aspirations and interests of students.
With current policy concern over the social and political impact of recent immigration from Latin American, Asia, and Africa, this panel is timely; its papers analyze how new and diverse minority communities become politically integrated, socialized, incorporated into U.S. society.
www.providence.edu /polisci/rep/apsa97.htm   (1821 words)

  
 The Society for Political Methodology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
American Political Science Association, and the central web site for the political methodology community.
Additionally, we house a collection of Syllabi for undergraduate and graduate courses in political methodology.
The Society for Political Methodology page includes useful information about the Society including bylaws, officers, and the awards presented by the Society.
web.polmeth.ufl.edu   (172 words)

  
 Social Science Resources: Political Science
Political Science Research Resources ; and Formal and Empirical Political Theory Research Resources ; and Political Science Journal Listings all from Richard Tucker.
Political Database of the Americas : "documentary and statistical political information on Latin America".
Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence : at University of St Andrews in Scotland.
www.socsciresearch.com /r12.html   (2978 words)

  
 UCSB Libraries - Political Science
Includes Association information such as membership, personnel service, organized sections of APSA, national office, Association governance, APSA publications, grants and fellowships.
Straightforward arrangement of links by major topic areas spanning political science interests with an international scope: government sources, constitutions and trea ties, elections and electoral systems, political parties and interest groups, political theory, area studies, local and regional government, international relations, data, journals and news sources, and bibliographic tools.
Includes sections for major subfields such as US politics, foreign politics, international relations, political theory, as well as links for methodology, statistics, reference tools, periodicals, professional organizations, area studies, news, and government resources.
www.library.ucsb.edu /subj/politica.html   (1378 words)

  
 Political parties, interest groups, and other movements around the world
CANF - the Cuban American National Foundation is dedicated to the establishment of freedom and democracy in Cuba.
The Federation of Student Nationalists is the student wing of the SNP
ATTAC, Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens
www.psr.keele.ac.uk /parties.htm   (1003 words)

  
 ALA | LPSS Home Page
The Law and Political Science Section (LPSS) was formed in 1975 and is a section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, which is a division of the American Library Association.
The purpose of LPSS is to serve as an educational forum and information exchange for librarians with an interest or subject expertise in law or political science.
Association of College and Research Libraries, Law, Political Science, sections
www.ala.org /ala/acrl/aboutacrl/acrlsections/lawpolisci/lpsshomepage.htm   (156 words)

  
 Foreign Policy Association - Homepage
Bush's emphasis continues to be on the need to end political violence, the dismantlement of networks engaged in such activities and preventing such organizations from participating in the January 2006 Palestinian legislative elections.
The Foreign Policy Association and The National Endowment for Democracy invite you to attend the second fall lecture of The New York Democracy Forum featuring Larry Diamond, co-director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies, founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
The National Opinion Ballot Report 2005 was prepared by the Foreign Policy Association, presenting the tabulation of ballots sent in by Great Decisions participants from around the country.
www.fpa.org   (432 words)

  
 American Political Science Association Style Manual
Abridged and revised for the Lamar University Political Science Department
All formal papers submitted to satisfy the requirements for Political Science classes at Lamar University shall conform to the style described in this Manual, unless otherwise instructed by the professor.
The state of publication is specified only if the city is not well known or may be confused with another place, e.g., Cambridge or Columbus.
dept.lamar.edu /polisci/DRURY/drury.html   (2239 words)

  
 Russell Kirk's Mistake by Paul Gottfried
All of this brings me back to a book that I’ve been busily fleshing out for several months and which elaborates on an observation made by Murray Rothbard and published on this website on Wednesday.
Murray, who had been ousted by an earlier incarnation of the movement from the one that later dumped me, noted that the American Right did not start considering itself "conservative" until around the time Russell Kirk published The Conservative Mind in 1953.
At least implicitly Murray raises the question whether this self-description was not dangerous for a movement that had seen itself as defending an old-fashioned liberal program of limited government.
www.lewrockwell.com /gottfried/gottfried83.html   (477 words)

  
 Psychoanalysis -- The American Psychoanalytic Association
The American Psychoanalytic Association and New York State Psychiatric Association joined forces to file an amici brief defending the psychotherapist-patient privilege in a New York State murder case.
TAP The American Psychoanalyst, our organization's newsletter, including the full text of selected articles from recent issues.
JAPA The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, including contents and abstracts of recent issues.
www.apsa.org   (511 words)

  
 uw-madison writing center writer's handbook
If you are following the style Manual for Political Science, (1993) published by the American Political Science Association (APSA), use parenthetical citations within your text to indicate the source of borrowed ideas and quotations.
At the end of your paper you should provide a list of all of the references cited in your paper.
The sample citations and references on these pages are drawn from the Style Manual for Political Science, revised edition, 1993, and from The Chicago Manual of style, 14th edition (1993).
www.wisc.edu /writing/Handbook/DocAPSA.html   (84 words)

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