Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Political Science Research and Education

External reference: https://openalex.org/T13721

  1. Iranian political science curricula reflect state-led Islamization
    Analysis of how authoritarian state policies reshape political science curricula and research in Iranian universities through ideological control and institutional mechanisms.
  2. Academic freedom in Hungary declined alongside government deterioration
    Legal analysis of Hungarian higher education legislation reveals strong correlation between academic freedom decline and government autocratization from 1990 to present.
  3. Political theory is presented as essential to analyzing political systems
    Political theory remains essential for rigorous political system analysis, offering conceptual clarity and normative frameworks that empirical methods alone cannot provide.
  4. Academic expert involvement varies across policymaking arenas
    Study reveals how academic experts gain access to policy-making across parliament, government, and media in Belgium, with persistent overrepresentation of senior male scholars from social sciences.
  5. Graduate classrooms may be central to Global IR change
    Explore how graduate classroom pedagogy can advance Global IR's diversity goals. This study reveals systemic pressures limiting epistemological diversity and proposes pedagogical interventions to.
  6. Politics should be rigorous, problem-driven, and cross-disciplinary
    Explore how a PPE graduate developed a rigorous political science methodology emphasizing temporal and spatial analysis over behavioural paradigms, bridging humanities and social sciences through.
  7. Mass Observation offers access to British public opinion and feeling
    Explore how Mass Observation methodology illuminates British political disaffection and polarization through longitudinal archival data, offering researchers unique insights into public sentiment.
  8. Congressional budget hearings used four politeness strategies
    Examine how Philippine congressional budget hearings use politeness strategies to balance authority, accountability, and institutional hierarchy in legislative proceedings.
  9. Agenda-setting research expanded through new methods and AI
    Explore how agenda-setting research has evolved since McCombs and Shaw's 1972 framework, with focus on computational advances and AI-enabled methodologies transforming public policy analysis.
  10. The article argues Popper resembles civic republicanism
    Exploring whether Karl Popper's political philosophy aligns with civic republicanism, examining his concepts of freedom, state institutions, and democracy against Italo-Atlantic republican theory.
  11. Chinese political discourse evolved through five stages
    Explore how Chinese political discourse evolved from the 1840s to present day, examining Western influences, socialist frameworks, and the development of a distinctive Chinese political linguaculture.
  12. Case studies are proposed to improve IR teaching on Southeast Asia
    Case study pedagogies for teaching Southeast Asian regional dynamics in IR programs, integrating retrospective and decision-forcing frameworks to enhance student engagement and critical thinking.
  13. Networks, trust, and reciprocity shape public service collaboration
    Qualitative examination of bureaucratic collaboration in Colombian public administration reveals professional networks and reciprocal trust as foundational mechanisms sustaining interagency.
  14. Congress remains policy productive despite polarization
    Analysis of congressional problem-solving capacity demonstrates sustained legislative productivity and bipartisan support despite polarization, challenging prevailing assessments of dysfunction.
  15. Yasir Machmud’s victory was shaped by a multi-actor election network
    Actor-Network Theory analysis of Yasir Machmud's 2024 legislative election victory in Bone Regency, examining how human and non-human actors form networks that produce electoral success.