정치학/사회과학/인문교육 계열 계량적 논문 소개

ABSTRACT New technologies such as Remotely Piloted Vehicles (RPVs) make it possible to remove human beings from direct involvement in combat. How will this evolving dynamic affect the practice and purposes of political violence? Will conflict become ‘costless’ in human terms as machines replace people on the front lines or will the logic of war continue to call for human sacrifice? While conside..

Political Science 2023. 3. 15. 15:56

BENJAMINM. JENSEN(Marine Corps University), CHRISTOPHER WHYTE(Virginia Commonwealth University), SCOTTCUOMO(United States Marine Corps) How might rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies affect the construction and application of military power? Despite the emerging importance of AI systems in defense modernization initiatives, there has been little empirical or theoretical st..

Political Science 2023. 3. 15. 13:52

JACK S. LEVY (Rutgers University) A half-decade after the first systematic applications of prospect theoiy to international relations, scholars continue to debate its potential utility as a theoretical framewvork. Key questions include the validity of the experimental findings themselves, their relevance for real-world international behavior that involves high-stakes decisions by collective acto..

카테고리 없음 2023. 3. 14. 13:18

The central puzzle about war, and also the main reason we study it, is that wars are costly but nonetheless wars recur. Scholars have attempted to resolve the puzzle with three types of argument. First, one can argue that people (and state leaders in particular) are sometimes or always irrational. They are subject to biases and pathologies that lead them to neglect the costs of war or to misunde..

Political Science 2023. 3. 13. 18:32

What, then, is a “group”? How does it acquire the capacity for exercising such a decisive influence over the mental life of the individual? — Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921, 6) In the preceding parts of this book, we took up two broad classes of democratic theory. The first class we called “populist,” conveying the notion that the political preferences of ordin..

Political Science 2023. 3. 2. 16:57

A good deal of traditional democratic theory leads us to expect more from national elections than they can possibly provide. We expect elections to reveal the “will” or the preferences of a majority on a set of issues. This is one thing elections rarely do, except in an almost trivial fashion. — Robert A. Dahl, A Preface to Democratic Theory (1956, 131) Robert Dahl (1956, 1) began A Preface to D..

Political Science 2023. 3. 2. 16:05

Adam McCauley & Andrea Ruggeri Regardless of perspective, philosophy, approach or assumptions, strong projects require a good research question. The process can be laborious, and the researcher will likely spend significant time in draft, making the question clear and explicit before it emerges in its polished form in the research project. For this reason and those outlined below, a scholar will..

Quantitative Study 2023. 2. 23. 16:21

William Roberts Clark Good research is driven by impatience with bad answers to interesting questions. But where do interesting questions come from? Since this is the opening chapter of a handbook on research methods, it is imperative to point out at the start that there is no ‘method’ to asking research questions, in the sense of a cookbook you can follow that will lead, inexorably, to scientif..

Quantitative Study 2023. 2. 23. 15:16