How US–China political tensions are affecting science

Why and How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health? Proposals for Collaborative Research Avenues

Written by a group of political science researchers, this commentary focuses on the contributions of political science to public health and proposes research avenues to increase those contributions. Despite progress, the links between researchers from these two fields develop only slowly. Divergences between the approach of political science to public policy and the expectations that public hea...

How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health: A Response to Gagnon and Colleagues

Teaching Political Science in Europe

Thisarticle first reviews the history of political science teaching in Europebefore going on to consider a range of recent developments in the teaching of politicalscience, including cross-national joint programmers; technologically enhancedlearning; placement learning and problem-based learning. The last sectionconsiders a range of issues facing political science teachers, includingfinancial p...

Health policy – why research it and how: health political science

The establishment of policy is key to the implementation of actions for health. We review the nature of policy and the definition and directions of health policy. In doing so, we explicitly cast a health political science gaze on setting parameters for researching policy change for health. A brief overview of core theories of the policy process for health promotion is presented, and illustrated...

How To Be Smooth: Automated Smoothing in Political Science

Smoothing is an important statistical tool in applied analysis of political data. Smoothers can be use to incorporate nonlinearity, deal with duration dependence, and diagnose residual plots. But smoothers invariably require the analyst to make choices about the amount of smoothing to apply and the criteria for this choice amounts to visual examination. Such visual methods can lead to seemingly...