Making political science matter : debating knowledge, research, and method
Discusses the state of the field of Political Science. This book talks about the usefulness of rational choice theory; the ethical limits of pluralism; the use (and misuse) of empirical research; the divorce between political theory and empirical science; and the connection between political science scholarship and political struggles.
1 online resource (vii, 304 pages)
9781429490184, 9780814783566, 9780814740323, 9780814740330, 1429490187, 0814783562, 0814740324, 0814740332
170695328
Return to politics: perestroika, phronesis, and post-paradigmatic political science / Sanford F. Schram
The perestroikan challenge to social science / David D. Laitin
A perestroikan straw man answers back: David Laitin and phronetic political science / Bent Flyvbjerg
A statistician strikes out: in defense of genuine methodological diversity / Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
Reflections on doing phronetic social science: a case study / Corey S. Shdaimah and Roland W. Stahl
Social science in society / Theodore Schatzki
Power and interpretation / Brian Caterino
Contesting the terrain: Flyvbjerg on facts, value, knowledge, and power / Mary Hawkesworth
The bounds of rationality / Stewart Clegg
Making intuition matter / Leslie Paul Thiele
Conundrums in the practice of pluralism / Peregrine Schwartz-Shea
Unearthing the roots of hard science: a program for graduate students / Greg J. Kasza
Political science and political theory: the heart of the matter / David Kettler
Finding new mainstreams: perestroika, phronesis, and political science in the United States / Timothy W. Luke
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010