A THIRD WORLD APPROACH TO POLITICAL SCIENCE

Mapping science in the Third World

Eugene Garfield PhD is u piouccr in the field of information science. He is founder and presiden t oj’the Institute jbr Scientijic Irij&mation (iSI), \rvhich produces a broad spectrum of‘ inf&-mation services and systems. The inventor of ‘Current

Special Section: Science in the Third World

Let me first warmly thank UNESCO and ICSU for the invitation extended to me to take the floor at the opening ceremony of this Conference and address it on behalf of the Third World Academy of Sciences, over which I have the honour to preside. I am aware that this distinction is a tribute to the many colleagues of our generation who, in the developing countries, under the pressure of necessity, ...

An Epidemiological Approach to the Spread of Political Third Parties

Third political parties are influential in shaping American politics. In this work we study the spread of third parties ideologies in a voting population where we assume that party members are more influential in recruiting new third party voters than non-member third party voters. The study is conducted using an epidemiological model with nonlinear ordinary differential equations as applied to...

How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health: A Response to Gagnon and Colleagues

Sanjay Pradhan , The World Bank Group The Relevance of Political Science to the World Bank

By the mid 1990s, scholars, practitioners, and policy makers alike had begun to recognize the critical importance of good governance for growth and poverty reduction. Yet corruption, its mirror image, remained “taboo” at the World Bank up until the historic “cancer of corruption” speech in 1996 of then-Bank President James Wolfensohn that formally brought governance and anticorruption into the ...