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Are Intuitions Treated as Evidence? Cases from Political Philosophy*

Journal of Political PhilosophyEarly View Original Article Are Intuitions Treated as Evidence? Cases from Political Philosophy* Sebastian J. Conte, Sebastian J. Conte Political Science, University of OsloSearch for more papers by this author Sebastian J. Conte, Sebastian J. Conte Political Science, University of OsloSearch for more papers by this author First published: 15 February 2022 https://doi.org/10.1111/jopp.12277 * Earlier versions of this article were presented at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, the Nordic Network of Political Theory’s workshop (Roskilde 2018), the Norwegian national conference in political science (Trondheim 2019), and the ECPR general conference (Wrocław 2019). The article benefitted greatly from discussions at these events and I am grateful to the participants for their comments. The article also benefitted from a stay at CAS as a GOODPOL fellow. In particular, I would like to thank Kim Angell, Herman Cappelen, Andreas Christiansen, Keith Dowding, Göran Duus-Otterstrom, Jakob Elster, Fredrik Dybfest Hjorthen, Robert Huseby, Klemens Kappel, Sune Lægaard, Erlend Langørgen, Sigurd Lindstad, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Jonathon Moses, Tor Otterholt, and Dag Einar Thorsen, as well as Christian Barry and two anonymous referees for this journal, for valuable comments. ‡ Copyright notice: © 2022 The Author. Journal compilation © 2022 Wiley Publishing Ltd., 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue RelatedInformation

Civil Society: The Worthy Soul of Democracy

This is a public lecture delivered in a symposium jointly organized by Surya Ratna Shakya Foundation, Pokhara and Department of Political Science, Prithvi Narayan Campus, Pokhara on December 12, 2021.

Globalisation and The Politics Of Economic And Social Development In Africa

Globalisation, though seen as the catalyst for social and economic development across the globe, its over bearing influence on national economies particularly in Africa and the rest of other developing economies has led to compromising national sovereignty, institutions of governance, moral rectitude and the plunging of the entire global community into sharp divide between the North and the South with the North having superior advantage over the south as a result of its technological strength. In this paper, the authors identified globalisation as a phenomenon used by advanced democracies to hold on to the control of international economies at the expense of developing world through its strong institutions: political, economic, social and cultural. Data for this study was gathered through primary and secondary sources. Primary sources were through structured oral interview and focus group discussion while secondary sources were from documented sources. Data was qualitatively analysed from 30 respondents drawn from 3 Departments in the University of Calabar – Departments of Political Science, Economics and Social Science Education. The major finding of the study revealed that globalisation has great positive and negative impact on social and economic development in Africa.

Learning by Doing: Using an Undergraduate Research Lab to Promote Diversity and Inclusion

ABSTRACTUndergraduate research labs have long been recognized as having educational and professional benefits, but much less attention has been given to how they can promote diversity and inclusion. Without a conscientious effort to promote these goals, labs are likely to replicate and perpetuate existing inequalities. This article discusses our experiences and lessons from launching an undergraduate research lab in a political science department at a research-oriented state university. It concludes with suggestions for other departments interested in starting undergraduate research labs. Promoting diversity and inclusion by working with undergraduates is unlikely if faculty are recruiting students individually outside of a lab, if the burden is on students to approach faculty, or if labs do not take practical steps to make this happen.

School of Hard Knocks: Rebuilding a Program

This research addresses the challenges of rebuilding a political science department from the ground up. By looking at student needs, departmental resources, and assessment of recent graduates and seniors, this research helps faculty by providing tools and information about building and strengthening a department. By describing what is unique to the challenges of political science as a discipline and as a department, I argue that political science is in a particular position to serve both the university goals and the goals of our majors. With our service to the university including courses geared toward educated citizenship, political science often fulfills the mission of universities geared toward being an active participant in society and politics. With the growing challenge of universities to cut back on departments and to become more cost efficient, I argue that political science is a necessity on campus. By acknowledging the need for a campus presence and strategies for recruitment and retention of students, this article looks at political science as a department and its self-evaluation of what can be done to rebuild.

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Previous article FreeContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreSungmin Cho is a professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii. His research focuses on democratization, authoritarian resilience, and Chinese and North Korean politics. Cho’s most recent scholarly articles appear in World Politics (2021) and Security Nexus (2021).Kecheng Fang (方可成) is an assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include journalism, political communication, and digital media. Before joining academia, he worked as a political journalist at the Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly.Jennie Jin is a special projects and disinterment manager at the scientific analysis directorate at America’s Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. As an anthropologist, her interests include the scientific and diplomatic aspects of the recovery and identification of missing US service members from past conflicts.Adam Y. Liu (刘遥) is assistant professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. His main research interests include Chinese politics and political economy. He is currently working on a book project that explores how central-local politics drove the formation, expansion, and operation of what he calls an “authoritarian market” in China’s banking sector. The project is based on his dissertation, which won the 2020 BRICS Economic Research Award. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University and was a postdoctoral associate with the Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy at Yale University.Jean C. Oi is the William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow there at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI). Oi has published extensively on political economy and the process of reform in China. Recent books include Fateful Decisions: Choices That Will Shape China’s Future, co-edited with Thomas Fingar (2020); and Zouping Revisited: Adaptive Governance in a Chinese County, co-edited with Steven Goldstein (2018). Her current research continues to explore central-local relations, including local government debt. She is also in the early stages of a project on China’s Belt and Road Initiative.Fengshi Wu (吴逢时) is associate professor in politics and international relations at University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her current research focuses on environmental movements and governance in authoritarian and hybrid polities.Kai Yang (杨凯) is a PhD candidate at the Department of Government and Public Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently a visiting researcher at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. His research interests cover contentious politics and authoritarian learning. His research article has appeared in The China Quarterly.Shen Yang (楊燊) is an assistant professor in the School of Graduate Studies and the Department of Political Science at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. His main research interests cover political contentions and Internet politics, with a focus on mainland China and Hong Kong. He has published articles in peer-reviewed journals including Law & Social Inquiry, Social Movement Studies, and Voluntas.Yi Zhang (张一) is chief economist of Zhonghai Shengrong Asset Management Group. He was a visiting scholar at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), Stanford University. His main research interests are China’s fiscal system and policy studies of Chinese local government. He received his PhD from the Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP), the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The China Journal Volume 87January 2022 Published on behalf of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/719039 Views: 430 © 2021 The Australian National University. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Social media through mobile devices in the service of archival ethnographic research: The roads & places of Greek (Magnesia) migration to the USA

This publication is carried out in the context of the research "Archival Ethnography with the Perspective of New Technologies: From the Land of Magnets to the Promised Land - Following Overseas Migration to the USA from the Late 19th Century to the Present" as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of Peloponnese. In particular, the social media and the group entitled "The roads \& places of migration of residents of Greece (Magnesia) to the USA" on Facebook constituted another research tool. The interested members (relatives of immigrants and citizens of Magnesia in Greece) posted documents for investigation (photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, advertising brochures of the time, birth certificates, manuscripts, letters, etc). The group members quickly posted relevant material via mobile devices (smartphones). At the same time, via messenger, some conversations resulted in oral testimonies (interviews in phases). Social media and the corresponding groups that can be created can be used in humanities research (history, folklore, archival ethnography) as digital notebooks using smartphones at any time and from various parts of a country. This article presents social media as internet technologies that can be used in collecting and digitizing evidence that can be useful in the analysis and elaboration of evidence-based research (archival ethnography).

History of Indonesia in the Master's Degree Course of the Department of Foreign History, Political Science and International Relations, Petrozavodsk State University

The article shows the importance of oriental publications Sulalat-us-salatin: Malay Manuscript of Kruzenshtern and its Cultural and Historical Significance and Travel and Latest Observations in China, Manila and the Indo-China Archipelago for studying the colonial policy of the Netherlands in Indonesia as part of the training course "Politics of European Powers in the Countries of the East in the 16th-early 20th century" of Master's program at the Petrozavodsk State University. The organization of the first Dutch expedition to the East Indies in 1595-1597 and the creation of the United East India Company are analyzed. The materials of the article can be useful in preparation for classes in the field of History.

Employee motivation, job satisfaction, live-work balance, material reward and career aspirations

Edward Affainie is experienced security and international relations professional with years of experience in the Ghana Armed Forces and the United Nations in complex political and security situations. Currently, he is the Deputy Security Adviser for the United Nations Department of Safety and Security in Zimbabwe and a Doctoral Researcher at the Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS) Department at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He previously worked at the United Nations Headquarters, where he moderated memorandums of understanding between the United Nations and member states to deploy troops for peacekeeping missions. He deployed and managed complex peacekeeping missions from startup to liquidation and served in various capacities in different peacekeeping missions in countries such as Cambodia, Southern Lebanon, Western Sahara, Liberia, Sudan, and South Sudan. His research interests are in the causes of war and conflict, management, leadership, governance, and security. His extensive length of professional experience as a military officer and an international civil servant contributes to his research interests. He retired from the Ghana Armed Forces at his peak career in 2010 at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and as the Deputy Director of Army Peacekeeping Operations at the Army Headquarters. He is a graduate of the Nigeria Command and Staff College and the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College. Abstract: Companies and Organisations’ existence, stability, and productivity depend mainly on their employees. This essay explores the factors that affect employee motivation, intention, and behaviour. It also examines three of the most recent studies on employee motivation and subsequently analyses these studies’ findings against their chosen theoretical frameworks and assesses their contributions to the framework. The first study by Saraswathi (2011) hypothesises that different professions can influence how employees perceive motivational factors. The second study by Shaikh et al. (2019) hypothesises that motivators and hygiene factors are equally important in improving employee performance. The third study by Kyndt et al. (2012), hypothesises that although intrinsic motivators can contribute to employee’s intention levels, satisfiers may make the inconvenience disappear but do not alter the employees’ intention or behaviours. The paper identifies gaps in knowledge that arise from these studies and further provides future research recommendations to understand employee motivation further. The essay provides gaps in the study of employee motivation for researchers in this field to explore further to contribute to knowledge in the field.

“Comparative Political Theory” and the Displacement of Politics

Over the course of the past few decades, comparative political theory has acquired a measure of institutional legitimacy and intellectual recognition as part of the ongoing, interdisciplinary challenge to prevailing academic categories, coordinates, and borders. This arrival has been accompanied by a conspicuous focus on methodology both by those who claim the mantle of comparative political theory and those who reject it. The following reflections read this focus symptomatically, as revealing intellectual, institutional, and professional exigencies rather than as distinct to any particular scholar, argument, or publication. Neither a “state of the field” nor a proprietary defense of what comparative political theory is or should be, these observations toggle back and forth between reflections on my own engagement and disengagement with the topic of comparative political theory on the one hand and, on the other, concerns about how this preoccupation with method simultaneously expresses and exacerbates the displacement of politics in the very field that aims to understand it. Among the questions I raise are: What might be driving this disproportionate focus on methodological arguments in and about comparative political theory? What are the stakes of such a focus, particularly for younger scholars in political science departments decreasingly hospitable to political theory? Finally, what does this augur for the future of the study of politics broadly understood within disciplines dedicated to the scientific study of human behavior?

POLITICAL SCIENCE (“POLITOLOGY”) AS AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE AND APPLIED SPECIALTY AT THE BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY

The article explores the formation and development of political science as an academic discipline and applied specialty at Belarusian State University. The development of the specialty “Political Science” (“Politology”) at BSU, and specificities of training specialists as “Political Scientist–Lawyer,” are key themes. We show that this qualification ensured the professionalization of the teaching of political science in Belarus and aimed at solving domestic and foreign policy issues of the Belarusian state and the political system as a whole. The training of specialists in political and legal activities facilitated the formation of skills of analytical support for government bodies to solvepressing issues. The development of the Political Science Department of the Faculty of Law at BSU focused on problems of public policy and administration. The main directions of the political research included comprehension of a number traditional and modern issues, which the Belarusian political science faces, injcluding: the problem of the correlation between the universal and the unique in the development of political science; dialectical comprehension of the political and administrative components in public administration, of domestic and foreign policy processes, "erosion of state sovereignty," "softening of border regimes," versus strengthening the sovereign state, protecting its security, and ideological substantiation of the values of national-state development; internal political processes consideration through the prism of globalization and the digital transformation; identification of mechanisms for the formation of political problems, their setting on the “policy agenda,” of mechanisms for the transformation of the social issues into political, the struggle for the production and control of information; research of the normative value systems formation; rethinking democracy, democratic activity and mechanisms for legitimizing power; identification of “points of inclusion” of ethical and regional issues in politics. The current trend in the Political Science development in Belarus is the transition from disciplinary isolation to interdisciplinary synthesis.

Single National Curriculum in Afghanistan: An Examination of Law and Political Science

A successful education system enables its beneficiaries to achieve their goals and objectives and is a key indicator of the progress of a country. However, the higher education system in Afghanistan has fallen short of the above. Recently, the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) processed a Single National Curriculum (SNC) to reform higher education. The paper seeks to critically evaluate if SNC is the solution to problems in higher education and to use the curriculum adopted for Law and Political Science as a case study. In this regard, the paper is divided into two parts. Part one discusses the drawbacks of SNC and the challenges in its implementation. It is observed that SNC is against the laws and regulations in place, and guidelines issued by MOHE. Also, SNC is an attempt to take away the academic autonomy of institutions of higher education since their creativity and innovation in the curriculum are undermined, and the critical thinking capacity of students is eclipsed barring them from thinking differently. In part two of this paper, an attempt is made to examine problems in the curriculum for the Departments of Law and Political Science. By adopting a comparative approach, the Afghan curriculum is compared with that approved by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) and the University Grant Commission of India (UGC). It is found out that Political Science is treated as part of Law; subjects offered in the field are out-of-place, and the focus is on a cursory study of law, political science, international relations, and diplomacy. Resultantly, a graduate is a “jack of all trades, master of none.” Key Words: Afghanistan, Single National Curriculum, Political Science, Law, Curriculum

How Russian Youth Consume Information: Case Study of the Political Science Students of the Financial University

This article is devoted to analyzing the results of a study conducted by the Educational and Scientific Laboratory of Internet Projects and Studies of the Department of Political Science and Mass Communications of the Financial University among university students. The work aimed to identify the characteristics and structure of youth information consumption in the digital space during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors analyzed the intensity and frequency of use of various types of information sources, identified the dominant sources of socio-political information, determining the level of trust in them, identified factors that affect the perception of message content. The article also analyzes the attitude of the respondents to the issue of Internet regulation by the state, defines and structures the subjective assessments of the opposition of the Internet space concerning existing government institutions. The paper concludes that the structure of the information consumption of the respondents shows a steady shift in the emphasis on information and communication activity of young people to digital platforms, sources, and channels. The youth audience spends a significant part of their active time in the digital space, which in its volume is comparable or even in many cases exceeds the amount of time spent in the traditional offline space. The consequence of this is the formation of digital information overload, stimulating the development and consolidation of the effect of clip consciousness. In general, based on the results of the work, the authors conclude that there is a stable structure of youth information consumption that has pronounced differences from the traditional structure of information consumption of older generations. Moreover, the processes of information consumption in the digital space are mostly irrational, and they are mainly based on digital habits that form the models of digital information consumption of modern students.

At the margins of personhood: Rethinking law and life beyond the impasses of biopolitics

ConstellationsVolume 28, Issue 4 p. 570-587 ORIGINAL ARTICLE At the margins of personhood: Rethinking law and life beyond the impasses of biopolitics Ayten Gündoğdu, Corresponding Author Ayten Gündoğdu agundogdu@barnard.edu Department of Political Science, Barnard College-Columbia University Correspondence Ayten Gündoğdu, Department of Political Science, Barnard College-Columbia University, 3009 Broadway New York, NY 10027. Email: agundogdu@barnard.eduSearch for more papers by this author Ayten Gündoğdu, Corresponding Author Ayten Gündoğdu agundogdu@barnard.edu Department of Political Science, Barnard College-Columbia University Correspondence Ayten Gündoğdu, Department of Political Science, Barnard College-Columbia University, 3009 Broadway New York, NY 10027. Email: agundogdu@barnard.eduSearch for more papers by this author First published: 06 December 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12593Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume28, Issue4December 2021Pages 570-587 RelatedInformation

Assessment of Requisite Knowledge and its Impact on the Academic Performance of Political Science Graduates of University of Abuja

The objective of the study is to make an assessment of Requisite Knowledge and its Impact on the Academic Performance of Political Science Graduates of the The University of Abuja. The main objective of the study is to examine whether academic performance of political science graduates of The University of Abuja is premised on the requisite knowledge in English Language, Government, Economics and Mathematics. Sample of 400 Political Science graduates between 2014 and 2020 were drawn through a convenient sampling procedure from the population of 1010 graduates. Secondary data were collected from the database of the Political Science Department of the University. A multivariate linear regression model using ordinary least-square (OLS) was used to analyze the data collected. Findings reveal that requisite knowledge of English Language and Government significantly influence academic performance positively at 1% level while, Mathematics is significant at 10%. However, requisite knowledge in mathematics was found to be insignificant. The study recommends that JAMB, NUC and university management should continue to concentrate more on requisite knowledge in English Language, Government and Economics as requisites knowledge for admission into political science in the The University of Abuja for an enhanced optimal performance.

Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Efrén Pérez about Political Psychology and the Study of Race and Ethnic Politics

Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Efrén Pérez about Political Psychology and the Study of Race and Ethnic Politics

Theory Education in Canada: Foundational Thinkers and Texts in the Subfield 1

This article reports the results of an examination of 187 introductory political theory courses within political science departments across Canada from 2011 to 2016. While instructors and departments know what they are doing in their classrooms, this article provides a broad overview of the field of political philosophy in Canadian universities through an exploration of which texts and thinkers are considered essential, with a focus on the introductory courses that are often mandatory for political science degrees and provide the foundation for the broader discipline. The hope is that these results will provide a stronger foundation for ongoing debates about the status and merits of contemporary political theory training as can be seen in relation to Black Lives Matter, Rhodes Must Fall, and, in Canada, reconciliation efforts between Indigenous and Settler populations. Further, this article suggests that there is little emphasis on uniquely Canadian expressions of political theory at this level—and this likely has implications for the shape of the subfield in the Canadian context.

Correction to: Football as a national security threat for the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

After publication, it was noticed that the affiliation of the author was incorrectly published in the online published article. The correct affiliation should read as Political Science Department, University of Crete, Rethymnon 74100, GR.

Researching SCSU's Hilton C. Buley Library's New Haven Mayoral Archives

Researching SCSU's Hilton C. Buley Library's New Haven Mayoral Archives

Molevich Yevgeny Fomich: Man of the Century 
 (for the 90th anniversary of the Scientist and Remarkable Man)

Evgeniy Fomich Molevich turned 90 years old on the 25th of April 2021. He is an extraordinary man whose biography is a reflection of an entire era in the history of our country. The purpose of this article is to introduce the reader to human qualities and the main stages of life path, as well as scientific interests of a well-known scientist. There have been analyzed his sociological concept of the three-pronged structure of the modern sociological knowledge; the characteristic aspects of the approach regarding the labor activity analysis and its structure; the labor concept in a post-industrial society; the prospects for the construction of a modern society as a new social and information reality. Moreover, there has been make an emphasis on the applied aspects of E.F. Molevichs activities as the organizer of the sociological laboratory (1969), the director of the Research Institute of Social Technologies of Samara University (1995-2009) and the head of Sociology and Political Science Department. Conclusions concerning the reasons for widespread recognition in the scientific environment and successes in teaching and social activities have been drawn.