Paradigms in Political Science Revisited

The (political) science of salt revisited.

Aburto and colleagues present a meta-analysis in adults on the effect of sodium reduction on blood pressure and other variables. With minor exceptions, this article is similar to another meta-analysis in the same issue of the BMJ; this again is similar to a 2004 Cochrane review,which is a minimal update of a previous analysis. Furthermore Aburto and colleagues’ current meta-analysis of populati...

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...

Editorial Paradigms Revisited JOHN TRIBE

©2006 Tourism Recreation Research Keith Hollinshead’s article The Shift to Constructivism in Social Inquiry develops some of the themes explored in the first of these two special issues of Tourism Recreation Research(Vol. 30, No.2, 2005) on the subject of research methods and approaches and presents a timely review of the paradigms debate. It continues a strand of work that he has been developi...

Political Science in Canada

Natural Science Paradigms

A primary motivation for research in Digital Ecosystems is the desire to exploit the self-organising properties of natural ecosystems. Ecosystems are thought to be robust, scalable architectures that can automatically solve complex, dynamic problems. However, the biological processes that contribute to these properties have not been made explicit in Digital Ecosystem research. Here, we introduc...