Political communication science as a research area: history and contemporaneity

Science Communication, A review on Importance, History, and Its Models

The article is an extended version of a talk on the issue given in Half-Day Seminar on the Complications of Scientific Publications held by Iranian Academy of Sciences, on July the ninth of 2019. Apparently, science communication, an old tradition and once very popular according to the literature reviewed, is not well advanced along with the magnificent scientific progress happened during the l...

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...

mixed research methods in political science

qualitative and quantitative research methods are different in some aspects but they complement each other in other aspects, as well. following widespread criticism of qualitative and quantitative research methods, there is increasing trend in using mixed research methods in social sciences in general and political science in particular. most advocates of pluralism attempted to fill the gap bet...

Text Annotation for Political Science Research

Afterword: Political Ethnography as Art and Science

Adam Ashforth has written one of the recent political ethnographies I most admire. His Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa draws on a total of about three years’ residence during the 1990s in Soweto (South West Township), an Apartheid-built black suburb of Johannesburg, plus subsequent visits to his adopted family and friends there. Earlier, Ashforth wrote an impressive historic...