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Special number . China at the Peace conference. Aug. 1919. Canton, China, Printed by the Diplomatic association [1919]. ; Mode of access: Internet.

As an independent basic social science, the study of politics occupies an important position among all the social sciences. In 1952, however, China abolished political science teaching and research. This was a mistake which is now being corrected. China has reestablished the field of political science in recent years.When a historical event is shown to be mistaken, people often like to describe the reasons for its having taken place as very absurd and unimaginable, as though to demonstrate how confused people were at that time compared with how smart we are now. Such a simple attitude, however, will not help us in understanding the realities scientifically nor will it help us in learning from the lessons of history, and is therefore to be avoided.This essay describes both objective conditions and the way people thought, both in the early 1950s and after 1976. It deals with two opposite events: first, the abolition of political science in China three decades ago, and second, its current revival.

ABSTRACTThe importance of data science in society today is undeniable, and now is the time to prepare data science talent (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2018). Data science demands collaboration, but collaboration within political science departments has been weak in teaching data science. Bridging substantive and methods courses can critically aid in teaching data science because it facilitates this collaboration. Our innovation is to integrate data science into both substantive and methods courses through a dedicated data science course and modules on data science topics taught in substantive courses. This approach allows not only for more opportunities for teaching and practice of data science methods but also helps students to understand how social, economic, and political biases and incentives can affect their data.

In the article questions of voting of one-company towns of the Republic of Karelia on amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation are investigated in the summer of 2020. The interest of the appeal to a single case is caused by low values of electoral turnout in the region. The analysis of the results of the referendum in single-profile municipalities of the Republic is due to low socio-economic indicators in comparison with the rest of the Russian Federation. The paper contains a table that provides information on the percentage of voter turnout and the distribution of responses to constitutional amendments for each polling station in 11 single-industry towns in Karelia. The study identified two groups of factors that influenced the results of the constitutional referendum in single-industry municipalities in the region. The first category included circumstances that are typical for all regions of the Russian Federation: psychological fatigue from information about the COVID-19 pandemic and the postponement of voting for the summer vacation period. The second included specific indicators typical of Karelian single-industry towns: the combination of elements of patriarchal and national political culture in the practice of electoral participation, the geographical location of singleindustry towns on the territory of the Republic, their distance from the center and proximity to European borders.

In this important book, well known Comparativist, Howard J. Wiarda, traces the long and controversial history of culture studies, and the relations of political culture and identity politics to political science. Under attack from structuralists, institutionalists, Marxists, and dependency writers, Wiarda examines and assesses the reasons for these attacks and why political culture went into decline only to have a new and transcendent renaissance and revival in the writings of Inglehart, Fukuyama, Putnam, Huntington and many others.