New Worlds 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...

New Macroeconomics and Political Science

■ Abstract We review the use of macroeconomics in political science over the past 40 years. The field has been dominated by new classical theory, which leaves little room for economic policy and focuses attention on what democratic governments can do wrong in the short term. The resulting literatures on political business cycles and central bank independence are large and sophisticated, but the...

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...

Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms

Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms*

The ‘new institutionalism’ is a term that now appears with growing frequency in political science. However, there is considerable confusion about just what the ‘new institutionalism’ is, how it differs from other approaches, and what sort of promise or problems it displays. The object of this essay is to provide some preliminary answers to these questions by reviewing recent work in a burgeonin...