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...Tiffany Willoughby-Herard Abstract This article introduces a new way to evaluate the political and theoretical significance of the Carnegie Commission Poor White Study conducted from 1927 to 1932 in South Africa. Building on the recent literature on whiteness and the older literature on scientific...

... to this perceived malaise, beyond the most visible and well-known debate over the supremacy of quantitative methods. In particular, in light of his analysis of the scientific field and his key concept of scientific capital, four major structuring dimensions of American political science are reviewed: academic...

... relationship between citizens and scientific experts in the policy-making process can be seen in the current debate between the neurodiversity movement and anti-autism groups over the needs of autistic people. However, this article shows that within policy discussions, both groups have been (re)constructed...

... to punish its citizens with the prison, and an obligation to manage the risks of democracy through the prison’s principles of scientific certainty, less eligibility, and disciplinary solitude. By examining the life and work of Francis Lieber, this article offers new ways of thinking about political...

... that they, too, are created by powerful actors rather than being scientific givens. The implications for our practice of politics are clear. © 2019 Caucus for a New Political Science 2019 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 2019, VOL. 41, NO.3, 459-475 httpsdoLorg/l 0.1 080/07393148.2019.1636567 ARTICLE Images...

... is a totalising concern, that is scientifically measurable, that creates new leverage for late industrialisers, requires a proactive strategy, within a limited temporal horizon, embedded within an all-encompassing and radically challenging epistemology. As such climate justice addresses some of the limitations...

... materialist perspective, the article provides an explanatory critique of capitalist competition and the atomistic and reductionist social scientific precepts that serve to legitimize the neoliberal type of competition regulation. By critically engaging with principles and values central to anarchism...

... and discuss Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital-trilogy, which rejects techno-optimism about our climate-changed world, yet hails the transformative potential of an anti-capitalist scientific community. Ultimately, the paper claims that, if we cannot have success in addressing the climate emergency...

...Timothy W. Luke Abstract This study explores how ordinary disciplinary practices and values in contemporary political science normalize the behavior and thinking of most political scientists. By pushing beyond the ideal image of scientific activity in the philosophy of social science and into some...

... with bourgeois thought, can be assimilated easily into social scientific understandings about ideology; (2) that Althusser's theory has internal difficulties rooted in the tension between positive and negative conceptions of ideology; and, (3) that Althusser left unanswered the key question of the means...

... contestation of political institutions. We illustrate the usefulness of sonification to subsume both positions in this divide. More generally, we argue that sonification can enhance public communication of scientific results and extract meanings from observations that go unnoticed in visual and verbal...

... Ultimately, this study questions how the natural science model, as Designing Social Inquiry exemplifies it, continues to be accepted in political science research as natural, scientific, and a model? Easton maintains political science is, in large part, what political scientists do? What political scientists...

... Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research Design, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, xi + 245 pp. Robert Axelrod, The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent Based Models of Competition and Collaboration, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997, xiv + 232 pp. Robert Jervis, System...

... embodied in science and technology. To a large extent, marxism has shared the capitalists' worship of scientific understanding and industrial technique as reified, eternal truths. While ruling ideas are clearly grasped as reflexes of material relationships and have not been accorded independent existence...

.... There must be another and a better way6 Ayany's text significantly reproduces the Europeall Enlightenment rationality wllich is predicated on the acceptance as knowledge only those (propositions) wilich are empirically justifiable. He believed tilat scientific reason, which is universal, must replace...

.... In the edited volume, White Logic, White Methods, Tukufu Zuberi and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva present a creative and substantive indictment of the history and practice of social scientific research of racial matters. Along with 22 additional contributors, they argue that our knowledge of race/racism has been built...

.... This boundary struggle between science and politics shapes debate and implementation of the country's treatment program for people living zvith AIDS. Introduction: Politics and Science The heated battle between those who cloak racism in scientific language and those who attack the colonialist legacy still...

... purely descriptive in the scientific sense. Philosophy is not common sense, because the desire for a qualitatively better world requires transcending the common sense of a given situation, and the scientific description of which can only reinforce the status quo. Instead, philosophy should integrate...

... and penetrating application of scientific realism and social kind theory to the transformative project and empirico-conceptual core of Marx's critique of political economy. Engelskirchen sets himself the task of clarifying Marx's concept of capital, in realist terms, specifically (like the title suggests...

... a work in progress, dedicated to the idea of progress. That chiasmus points to the hope the discipline's early leaders had that political science could develop as the scientific study of politics that would redound to the improvement of American democracy and vice versa.4 The push for professionalization...