INTRODUCTION. – Toward a More Eclectic, Pluralist and Cosmopolitan Political Science?
| Ramona COMAN and Jean-Frédéric MORIN
1. Politics, pluridisciplinarity and professionalization
1.1. Three challenges over the history of political science
1.2. Towards eclecticism, pluralism and cosmopolitanism?
2. Investigating scholarly journals
2.1. The benefits of exploring a discipline through its journals
2.2. Limitations in the study of scholarly journals
3. Content and orientation of this book
CHAPTER 1. – 30 Years of West European Politics: And The Winner Is… | Clément JADOT
Introduction
1. Unlocking comparative politics through the use of keywords
2. Issues that count: West European Politics through the prism of content analysis
2.1. 1978-1987: WEP's positioning between the one and the many
2.2. 1988-1997: WEP's tardy look at the EU
2.3. 1998-2007: Forging ahead
2.4. 1978-2008: West European Politics, from "splendide isolement" to ongoing
internationalization
3. From content to challenges: questioning the core values of European comparative politics
3.1. Political parties in the 21st century: old dogs, new tricks?
3.2. West European Politics opening up: one step at a time
Conclusion
CHAPTER 2. – Assessing Party Research Decline: A View from the British Journal of
Political Science | Caroline CLOSE
Introduction
1. Data and methods
2. Assessing the decline in party research: a view from the British Journal of Political Science
2.1. General perspectives
2.2. The three faces of parties
3. Is party research in decline?
CHAPTER 3. – Context Sensitivity and Biases in Political Science: the Case of Economic Voting
Studies in the Journal Electoral Studies | Lidia NÚÑEZ
Introduction
1. The impact of the context and its consequences
2. The method: systematic analysis and its advantages
3. The theory put to the test: economic voting
3.1. Methodological notes
3.2. Changes in treatment of the issue in the journal: an unbiased evolution?
3.3. The big two
Conclusions
CHAPTER 4. – Toward the Inclusion of Political-Philosophical Articles in the Revue Française
de Science Politique: Is a Return Possible? | Manuel CERVERA-MARZAL
Introduction
1. Methodological clarifications
2. Political philosophy in theRFSP: subject to fluctuating tendencies
3. A preference for liberal political philosophy?
4. The myth of ethnocentrism
Conclusion: back to the "glorious twenty" years of political philosophy in the RFSP
CHAPTER 5. – Elmer Recast: the Patchwork of EU Theories within the Journal of Common
Market Studies | Camille KELBEL
Introduction
1. One train may conceal another: a theoretical framework to the study of theories
1.1. European integration theories and their internal shifts: the EU
as an international organization
1.2. Comparative and governance approaches: the EU as an experiment in political
science research
2. Methodology
2.1. Research question and hypotheses
2.2. Data collection
3. Analysis and findings
3.1. Patchwork or mosaic?
3.2. The state of the original elephant
Conclusion
CHAPTER 6. – International Security and the Evolution of Security Studies: Between Mutual
Influence and Autonomy | Lorenzo ANGELINI
Introduction
1. Methodology and preliminary comments
2. International Security: who publishes?
3. International Security articles – between policy and theory
Conclusion
CHAPTER 7. – Security Dialogue on the Edge of International Security Studies: Uncovering a
Process of Innovation | Krystel WANNEAU
Introduction
1. The editorial line: journals as the gatekeepers of a scientific field
1.1. Blurred lines: journals, disciplines and the field
1.2. A niche journal: identity, prestige and satisfaction
1.3. A gatekeeper and social performer: the editorship of Security Dialogue
2. Theoretical framework and method of the longitudinal study: quantitative data
for qualitative analysis
2.1. Reflexive theoretical framework
2.2. Data collection and coding
3. Results analysis
3.1. Trends in the editorial line and the profusion of concepts
3.2. Choices made: an implicit hierarchy amongst sectors?
3.3. Qualitative interpretations: the journal as a research practice, field maturity and the
widening and deepening of security
Conclusion
CHAPTER 8. – How the World Speaks about American Politics: A Political Sociology of the American Political Science Review | Marie-Catherine WAVREILLE
Introduction
1. Toward a merger of European and American political science?
2. American-based scholars dominate journal articles on American politics
3. A sociological profile: who are the non-Americans contributing to American politics?
3.1. The 1980s: Olsen, Shamir, Opp, Kawato, Hibbs, Budge and Laver
3.2. The 1990s: Lissowski, Zemsky, and Stark
3.3. The 2000s: Jennings, King, Petrova, and Lauderdale
4. Analysis
4.1. Professional socialization into US standards and norms
4.2. “Under multiple skulls”: co-authoring as a norm among foreign-based authors
4.3. American politics outside of the United States: the “No Man’s Land”
Concluding remarks