Louise Overacker: A Life in Political Science

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...

Science in a political environment.

Three decades ago, at the height of the public controversy over nuclear power, many scientists and engineers were quick to pronounce that the activists who were opposed to this new and supposedly safe and clean form of energy production were acting irrationally. The scientists’ argument—and source of bewilderment— was the fact that while many protesters accepted high risks for themselves, such ...

Political Science in Canada

Political Science in a New Era

filled with a number of environmental, economic, and political crises that may indicate an irreversible change in the course of history. A major increase in consumption of natural resources, driven largely by the accelerating globalization and the rapid spread of industrialization, particularly in China and India, has tightened world markets, caused dramatic mineral price fluctuations, and even...

Transcendent Wisdom Patterns for Political Science

Abstract:About whether Islamic philosophy can play a role in the production of humanities? There is a continuum of ideas that, on the one hand, are ideas that have neglected the role of Islamic philosophy in general. And on the other hand, there are ideas that incor-porate the teachings of Islamic philosophy into paradigmatic elements for the produc-tion of a new type of human science. In...