Intended as a resource for undergraduates and beginning-level graduate students, this two-volume reference offers expositions on 99 carefully selected topics, in a manner that walks the line between the short explanations found in encyclopedias and the jargon-laden writing found in specialized journals. Each article is about eight pages and includes references. Arrangement is in six thematic sections, the first of which offers eight articles pertaining to the history of the discipline, postmodernism, neoinstitutionalism, systemism, rational choice, principal-agent theory, political psychology, and Straussians. Subsequent general themes are comparative politics, international relations, political science methodology, political thought, and American politics. This last section contains entries on the founding of the American political system, the media, judicial politics, interest groups and pluralism, state and local government, campaigns, and religion, among other topics. Indexing is in the second volume. The two editors are affiliated with the U. of North Texas and have extensive research and teaching credentials. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Via 100 entries or "mini-chapters," the SAGE 21st Century Reference Series volumes on political science will highlight the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates any student obtaining a degree in this field ought to have mastered for effectiveness in the 21st century. The purpose is to provide undergraduate majors with an authoritative reference source that will serve their research needs with more detailed information than encyclopedia entries but not so much jargon, detail, or density as a journal article or a research handbook chapter.
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John Ishiyama (Ph.D., Michigan State University) has been at Truman State University since 1990. His teaching interests include comparative political development, democratization and political parties, and political methodology. His research focuses on political party development in new democracies and empirical assessments of pedagogy. He has published three books and 72 journal articles (in Social Science Quarterly, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, Party Politics, Europe Asia Studies, etc.) as well as book chapters and reviews on democratization and development of political parties. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, the American Political Science Association, the Midwest Political Science Association, the Council on Undergraduate Research and the African Studies Association. He is a recipient of the 2003-2004 National Carnegie Scholar Award, the 2003 Governors award for excellence in teaching, and other awards for teaching. In 2004, he was named the Carnegie Foundation/CASE Missouri Professor of the Year. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Political Science Education and is on editorial boards of the journals Party Politics and Controversia. He is President of the International Studies Association-Midwest for 2006-2007. Dr. Ishiyama divides his time between teaching classes and serving as Director of the McNair Program at Truman State University. Marijke Breuning (Ph.D., Ohio State University) has been at Truman State University since 1995. Her teaching interests include International Relations, Comparative Foreign Policy, International Organization, and European Politics. Her research interests include comparative foreign policy, foreign aid and development cooperation, and ethnic politics. She is a member of the International Studies Association (ISA), American Political Science Association (APSA), the International Society of Political Psychology, and the European Union Studies Association. She is has served on the executive committees and is Past President of the APSA Foreign Policy Division, the ISA Midwest region, and the ISA Foreign Policy Analysis section. She has published articles in, among other journals, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, and International Politics, and has co-authored a book with John Ishiyama. Together with Dr. Ishiyama, she edits the Journal of Political Science Education. She is also part of the ISA editorial team of Foreign Policy Analysis.
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