USENET Discussion Groups in Political Science Courses

Native and Non-native Use of Lexical Bundles in Discussion Section of Political Science Articles

The study of lexical bundles, among types of text analysis, is gaining importance over the others in the last century. The present study employed a frequency-based analysis approach to the use of lexical bundles. The discussion section of 60 political science articles, with corpora around 253,063 words were investigated in three aspects of structure, form, and function of lexical bundles. The p...

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 good name of science; a discussion of science courses for general education in college.

Science, a weekly Journal founded in 1880, is published each Friday by the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the Business Press, 10 McGovern Ave., Lancaster, Pa. Editorial and Advertising Offices. 1515 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington 5, D. C. Telephone, Executive 0060. Cable address,SCIMAG, Washington, D. C. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Lancaste...

Debate, Division, and Diversity: Political Discourse Networks in USENET Newsgroups

1 Do online political discussions tend to aggregate diverse voices in cross-cutting debate and deliberation? Or do " audiences " for online discussion tend to fragment into ideological echo chambers? In the wilds of threaded discussion on the internet (as opposed to deliberative polls, moderated discussions, and other designed venues of deliberation), networks of political discourse emerge from...

Democracy in animal groups: a political science perspective.