Political thought and philosophy: For grad students & faculty

Unusual among American social sciences, political sciences retains an active, explicitly normative subfield that often has more in common with humanities than with other social sciences.

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Find, apply, and emulate extended review essays on many topics.

Addressing research topics in broad scholarly domains, the essays in these series summarize  trends and controversies in the literature, identifying key authors and works.

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