Rationalizing Politics
The Emerging Synthesis of International, American, and Comparative Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6269643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helen V Milner (0000-0003-2990-8373, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 759-786 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8183 • E-ISSN: 1531-5088 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/002081898550743 |
| OpenAlex | W2150257712 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 80 |
International relations has often been treated as a separate discipline distinct from the other major fields in political science, namely American and comparative politics. A main reason for this distinction has been the claim that politics in the international system is radically different from politics domestically. The degree of divergence between international relations (IR) and the rest of political science has waxed and waned over the years; however, in the past decade it seems to have lessened. This process has occurred mainly in the “rationalist research paradigm,” and there it has both substantive and methodological components. Scholars in this paradigm have increasingly appreciated that politics in the international realm is not so different from that internal to states, and vice versa. This rationalist institutionalist research agenda thus challenges two of the main assumptions in IR theory. Moreover, scholars across the three fields now tend to employ the same methods. The last decade has seen increasing cross-fertilization of the fields around the importance of institutional analysis. Such analysis implies a particular concern with the mechanisms of collective choice in situations of strategic interaction. Some of the new tools in American and comparative politics allow the complex, strategic interactions among domestic and international agents to be understood in a more systematic and cumulative way
Comparative politics · Divergence (linguistics · Economics · Epistemology · Global politics · International relations · International relations theory · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Realm · Sociology · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law
The Origins of Informality
The EU, Nato and the Integration of Europe
The Enlargement of the European Union and Nato
Reasoning of State
The International Political Economy of the Middle-income Trap
Sharing Transboundary Resources
Alien Citizens
Multilayered Governance, Pluralism, and Moral Conflict
War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe
Realism, Neoliberalism, and Cooperation
Simple and Formal Models in Comparative Politics
European External Trade Policy
Rethinking political structures
The Domestic Sources of Détente
Political Strategies of External Support for Democratization
The Babel of European Union Studies
Domestic environmental activists and the governance of the Ganges and Mekong Rivers in India and China
Decision Making in Autocratic Regimes
Elite perceptions of the US’ commitment to Nato after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Security ties or electoral connections? The US Congress and the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement, 2007-2011
Changing the Rules
Legislative Process in International Organizations
Habits and Policy
The Schools of Thought Problem in International Relations
Bureaucratic Diplomacy
Collaboration Networks in Conference Diplomacy
Alternation, Inclusion and the European Union
The policy effects of internationalization
Two-level games and trade cooperation
Together Again
Liberalist and realist security studies at 2000
Ernst B. Haas, liberal nationalism and the double-edged nature of European identity
Unraveling the Thought Probes of US Legislators on Trade Negotiations
Moving in from the periphery
Developmental states and undervalued exchange rates in the developing world
Making global markets
Power test
Japan, the US, and the emergence of multilateralism in Asia
Participating in the Governance of Trade
Survey Research in International Political Economy
Distributive domestic response
Is Anybody Still a Realist
Preferências domésticas e instituições do processo decisório em política econômica externa
What’s the point of being a discipline? Four disciplinary strategies and the future of International Relations
International Relations Theory and European Integration
In the Shadow of the Vote? Decision Making in the European Community
Toward a Dynamic Theory of International Politics
Explaining Variance; Or, Stuck in a Moment We Can't Get Out Of
Theorizing the European Union
Trade Competition and American Decolonization
Codecision and institutional change
The International Wanderings of a Liberal Idea, or Why Liberals Can Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Balance of Power
Globalization, Development, and International Institutions
International ideologies
Formal and real authority of ministerial jurisdictions in semi-open states
Oligarchization, formalization, adaptation? Linking Sociological Theory and EU Enlargement Research
Does Experience Matter
Not Complements, But Substitutes
Information Politics Versus Organizational Incentives
When States Choose to Die
Historical Institutionalism in International Relations
Judicial Power in Domestic and International Politics
In the Shadow of Law or Power? Consensus-Based Bargaining and Outcomes in the Gatt/WTO
The choice for EU theorists
Integrating Institutions
The Limits of Judicial Power
Should We Leave Behind the Subfield of International Relations
What Stops the Torture
The Diffusion of Policy Diffusion Research in Political Science
The Communication of Ideas across Subfields in Political Science
Transatlantic Competition Policy
The ends of International Relations theory
Beyond the Other? A postcolonial critique of the failed state thesis
French reaction to the menace from Cabanos and Bonis within the litigious territory between Brazil and French Guiana (1836-1841)
Cosmopolitan political science
Sleeping hegemons
Game Theory, Political Economy, and the Evolving Study of War and Peace
Taking Temporality Seriously
The New Federalism in Mexico and Foreign Economic Policy
Can Mercosur Survive? Domestic and International Constraints on Mercosur
| Unique citing works | 80 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,96 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2026 (28) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 80 |