Political Science
The academic study of political phenomena centers on political science (efforts empirically to document how politics occurs and to develop theories about its regular patterns), political theory (the study of ideas and the history of those ideas in political discourse) and international relations (the study of all aspects of global society including organizations and relations between states). Each of these three areas includes specialised research and publications. In political science many scholars focus on the US political system examining such issues and institutions as elections, presidential and congressional politics or law and civil rights; while others concentrate on comparative studies of more than one political system or understanding large processes such as democratization or political participation (voting and public opinion). Political theorists include scholars examining how best to understand ideas such as justice or equality or deliberation, and how the meaning of these concepts has evolved. IR scholars range from those interested in such events as war or peace, international economic relations or the role of organizations like the United Nations in shaping global society and the maintenance of human rights. There is both methodological and substantive overlap between the three branches expressed for instance in a shared interest in law and its effects, and in refining empirical tools such as survey research or experiments to improve the reliability of empirical findings.
Editor in Chief
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Desmond King holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in American Government at the University of Oxford, where he is a Fellow of Nuffield College. He has researched and published on race and American politics, comparative political economy and welfare policy, theories of the state, public policy making, immigration policy and the history of eugenics. His books include, with Rogers M Smith (Still A House Divided: Race and Politics in Obama’s America (2011), coedited with Lawrence Jacobs (The Unsustainable American State (2009), (Separate and Unequal: African Americans and the US Federal Government (2007), (The Liberty of Strangers (2005), (Making Americans: Immigration, Race and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (2000) and (In the Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in the USA and Britain (1999). He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
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Editorial Board
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| Andrea Campbell Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Simon Caney Oxford University |
Andrew Hurrell Oxford University |
Volume Editors
| Rawwida Baksh University of the West Indies Daniel Beland University of Saskatchewan Gerald Benjamin SUNY New Paltz Jeffrey M. Berry Tufts University Sarah A. Binder George Washington University Lawrence D. Bobo Harvard University Carles Boix Princeton University Mark Bovens Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier Ohio State University Yves Boyer Ecole polytechnique, Paris Henry E. Brady University of California, Berkeley Charles S. Bullock III University of Georgia Gregory A. Caldeira Ohio State University Roderic Ai Camp Claremont McKenna College Francis G. Castles University of Edinburgh Karen Celis University of Ghent Susan E. Clarke University of Colorado at Boulder David Collier University of California, Berkeley Andrew F. Cooper University of Waterloo John C. Courtney University of Saskatchewan Randall Crane University of California, Los Angeles Lisa Crooms-Robinson Howard University Russell J. Dalton University of California, Irvine Linda Darling-Hammond Stanford University Martin Daunton University of Cambridge Derek H. Davis University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Sam Daws United Nations Association of the UK Michael C. Dawson University of Chicago John S. Dryzek University of Bristol John S. Dryzek Australian National University Robert F. Durant American University George C. Edwards III Texas A&M University Michael Edwards New York University Lee Epstein University of Southern California Gould School of Law David M. Farrell University College Dublin Matthew Flinders University of Sheffield Rosemary Foot Oxford University Michael Freeden Mansfield College, Oxford University Andrew Gamble Queens' College, University of Cambridge Henry Louis Gates Jr. Harvard University Robert E. Goodin Australian National University Donald P. Haider-Markel University of Kansas Wendy Harcourt University of Erasmus Colin Hay University of Sheffield |
Jorge Heine Balsillie School of International Affairs Frank Hendriks Tilburg University Ronald Herring Cornell University Bonnie Honig Northwestern University Christopher Howard The College of William and Mary William G. Howell University of Chicago Evelyne Huber University of North Carolina Leonie Huddy Stony Brook University Lawrence R. Jacobs University of Minnesota Kathleen Hall Jamieson University of Pennsylvania Gerald Jaynes Yale University Peter John University College London Loch K. Johnson University of Georgia Erik Jones SAIS Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University Linda Kalof Michigan State University Sheldon Kamieniecki UC Santa Cruz Johanna Kantola University of Helsinki Richard S. Katz Johns Hopkins University R. Daniel Kelemen Rutgers University Michael Kenny Sheffield University Kate Kenski University of Arizona Hans‐Dieter Klingemann Social Science Research Centre Michael E. Kraft University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Carol Lancaster Georgetown University David L. Leal The University of Texas at Austin Frances E. Lee University of Maryland-College Park Taeku Lee University of Wisconsin, Madison Stephan Leibfried University of Bremen Jan E. Leighley University of Arizona David Levi-Faur Hebrew University Jack S. Levy Rutgers University Jane Lewis London School of Economics and Political Science Anders Lidström University of Umea Robert Lieberman Columbia University Julian Lindley-French Netherlands Defence Academy John Loughlin St. Edmund's College, Cambridge University José Antonio Lucero University of Washington L. Sandy Maisel Colby College Jens Meierhenrich London School of Economics and Political Science Anand Menon University of Birmingham Suzanne Mettler Cornell University Michael Moran University of Manchester Kimberly Morgan George Washington University Karen Mossberger University of Illinois at Chicago |
Amrita Narlikar University of Cambridge Richard B. Norgaard University of California, Berkeley Herbert Obinger University of Bremen Saadia Pekkanen University of Minnesota Anne Phillips London School of Economics Christopher Pierson University of Nottingham John Ravenhill Australian National University Martin Rein Massachusetts Institute of Technology Christian Reus‐Smit Australian National University R. A. W. Rhodes University of Southampton and Griffith University Bert A. Rockman Purdue University Marc R. Rosenblum University of New Orleans Mark J. Rozell George Mason Universitry Mark Sawyer University of California, Los Angeles Eric Schickler University of California-Berkeley Thomas Schillemans Utrecht University David Schlosberg Northern Arizona University David O. Sears University of California, Los Angeles Robert Y. Shapiro Columbia University Oliver Simons Harvard University David E. Smith University of Regina Duncan Snidal University of Chicago Marc Stears University of Oxford Claude Steele Stanford University School of Education John D. Stephens University of North Carolina Robert M. Stern UC-Berkeley; Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan Susan C. Stokes Yale University Paul 't Hart Australian National University; Utrecht University Ramesh Thakur United Nations University Daniel J. Tichenor University of Oregon Charles Tilly Columbia University Dale Turner Dartmouth College Richard Valelly Swarthmore College Nicholas van de Walle Cornell University Donna Lee VanCott University of Connecticut Georgina Waylen University of Sheffield Stephen Weatherill University of Oxford Rachel Weber University of Illinois at Chicago Barry R. Weingast Stanford University Thomas G. Weiss The CUNY Graduate Center, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies Laurel Weldon Purdue University Keith E. Whittington Princeton University |
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