The Challenge of Politics: An Introduction to Political Science, 3rd Edition Neal Riemer, Douglas Simon, Joseph Romance
Publisher: Congressional Quarterly, Inc.

Note: This review is from our sister site, LSE Review of Books, and gives the views of the author, and not the position of EUROPP – European Politics and Policy, nor of the London School of Economics. The chapter neatly explains some of the main challenges. Professor Richard Wiseman's latest book, Night School, explores the surprising new science of sleep and dreaming, and reveals how to make the most of the missing third of your life. May 11, 2014 - The book covers both qualitative and quantitative social science research methods, with Punch delivering clear definitions and examples of what data looks like in either research tradition ('numbers' vs. Colucci, Department of History and Political Science, Purdue University Calumet; Fellow, Keller Center for the Study of the First Amendment, University of Colorado. The ever-accelerating current scientific and technological revolution results in a flow of problems and opportunities that presents unprecedented cognitive and decisional challenges. Oct 4, 2008 - Political scientists have investigated the relationship of public health to governance, introducing the concept of health security. Jul 24, 2012 - Presented by the APSA's Political Organizations and Parties section, the Epstein award honors a book published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on “This is going to be a great opportunity to actually incorporate the book into my teaching,” says Nalepa, who will teach an Introduction to Comparative Politics class for first-year students in the fall and a similar course for upper-level students in the spring. Oct 29, 2010 - Book Description. Feb 27, 2012 - Reviewed by Frank J. Sep 17, 2013 - First, at 432 pages and with more than 550 sources listed in the bibliography, the book represents a review and synthesis of recent women and politics research – a rich and growing body of work. Feb 16, 2014 - Erik Voeten at The Monkey Cage has already filleted the column, citing a bunch of counter-examples from political science, which is usually held up, along with literary theory, as Exhibit A of this problem. Scientists simply don't behave like that. In Contagion and Chaos, Andrew Price-Smith Extending the analysis presented in his earlier book The Health of Nations, Price-Smith argues that epidemic disease represents a direct threat to the power of a state, eroding prosperity and destabilizing both its internal politics and its relationships with other states. Mar 1, 2011 - The pernicious effect of corporate or political influence on scientific research and priorities isn't in dispute here – but the arrogant, blanket slandering of an entire community is. Email: coluccif [at] purduecal.edu. Feb 11, 2014 - A wonderful 1934 book classified all of our worries in five general categories that endure with astounding prescience and precision, but we still struggle to identify the things truly worth worrying about — and, implicitly, working to resolve — versus those that only strain our ..