Political Science: the MGIMO School

The London School of Economics and Political Science

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) is well-equipped to deal with conflicting objectives when evaluating strategic options. Scenario Planning provides a framework for confronting uncertainty which MCDA lacks. Integration of these methods offers various advantages, yet its effective application in evaluating strategic options would benefit from scenarios that reflect a larger number of wide-...

The London School of Economics and Political Science

Ucl Department of Political Science School of Public Policy

This study uses quantitative analyses of the complete history of rulings made by the Panels and the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organisation’s Dispute Settlement Mechanism in order to assess the robustness of theories regarding the decision-making of these institutions, as well as to explore the potential for such studies of the WTO at this early stage of its development. Regression analy...

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...

The Political Science of Federalism

This article highlights political science’s interest in the distribution of authority between federal and state governments. The authority boundaries are studied (1) as mechanism design problems, where authority is allocated optimally to achieve social goals; (2) as problems in positive political theory, because the authority distribution creates competitive interests; (3) as an institutional d...