The most comprehensive reviews and critiques of theories of international migration published in the last decade cover a broad range of issues, but have nothing to say about the politics of immigration nor the sources and consequences of migration policy (Massey, et al., 1993, 1994; Massey, 1998). This oversight reflects both the tendency of scholars outside political science to neglect the pol...

Political Ecology (PE) has been retrospectively created from a history of wide ranging work of different disciplines, cultural settings and epistemological foundations. Its conceptualization was and remains expansive, eclectic and inclusive which has brought both innovative thinking and charges of incoherence. A review of these paradoxical views on the quality of knowledge and its effectiveness...

James A. Robinson is associate professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. Recent publications include the co-authored articles “Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 118; “A Theory of Political Transitions,” American Economic Review 91; and “Inefficient Redistribution,...

The Coevolution of Networks and Political Attitudes David Lazer a b , Brian Rubineau c , Carol Chetkovich d , Nancy Katz & Michael Neblo e a Department of Political Science, Northeastern University b Visiting Scholar, Harvard University c IRL School Department of Organizational Behavior, Cornell University d Public Policy Program, Mills College e Department of Political Science, The Ohio State ...

Political scientists have largely ignored conservation biology and its central concern, biodiversity. Consider two indicators and an anecdote. The indicators concern publication trends and faculty hiring in political science. In the past 20 years, the top five political science journals, as measured by their impact factor scores, have published one article focusing on biodiversity conservation ...

Originally developed to explain cultural variation in moral judgments, moral foundations theory (MFT) has become widely adopted as a theory of political ideology. MFT posits that political attitudes are rooted in instinctual evaluations generated by innate psychological modules evolved to solve social dilemmas. If this is correct, moral foundations must be relatively stable dispositional traits...

IN those delightful writings which Mr. Alfred Russell Wallace bas brought together in the volumes entitled Studies Scien#ji& lind Sodal and which include, with discussions geological, biological and anthropological, other discussions that are economic, political and educational, the reader finds a chapter described by the headline, "The Problem of Utility." Naturally, if he is familiar with mod...

T he last decade has seen a contentious dialogue between quantitative and qualitative scholars over the nature of political science methodology. Even so, there has often been a consensus that quantitative and qualitative research share a “unified logic of inference;” that the differences between these “traditions are only stylistic and are methodologically and substantively unimportant.” All of...