Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The study of politics seems endlessly beset by debates about method. At the core of these debates is a single unifying concern: should political scientists view themselves primarily as scientists, developing ever more sophisticated tools and studying only those phenomena to which such tools may fruitfully be applied? Or should they instead try to illuminate the large, complicated, untidy problems thrown up in the world, even if the chance to offer definitive explanations is low? Is there necessarily a tension between these two endeavours? Are some domains of political inquiry more amenable to the building up of reliable, scientific knowledge than others, and if so, how should we deploy our efforts? In this book, some of the world's most prominent students of politics offer original discussions of these pressing questions, eschewing narrow methodological diatribes to explore what political science is and how political scientists should aspire to do their work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511227219
• Artikelnr.: 38195687

Autorenporträt

Ian Shapiro is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor and Chair of Political Science at Yale University. His many books include The State of Democratic Theory, The Moral Foundations of Politics, Democratic Justice, and (with Donald Green) Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory.
Rogers M. Smith is the Christopher H. Browne distinguished Professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His previous books include Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History, Liberalism and American Constitutional Law, and Stories of Peoplehood: The Politics and Morals of Political Membership.
Rarek E. Masoud is a Doctoral student in Political Science at Yale University. His work centers on comparative politics and political economy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: problems and methods in the study of politics Ian Shapiro,
Rogers Smith and Tarek Masoud; Part I. Description, Explanation and Agency:
2. Problems, methods and theories in the study of politics, or: what's
wrong with political science and what to do about it Ian Shapiro; 3. Of
problems and methods: identities, interests, and the tasks of political
science in the 21st century Rogers M. Smith; 4. Political science as a
vocation Anne Norton; 5. The politics of policy science Frances Fox Piven;
6. The study of black politics and the practice of black politics: their
historical relation and evolution Adolph Reed; 7. External and internal
explanation John Ferejohn; Part II. Redeeming Rational Choice Theory?: 8.
Lies, damned lies and rational choice analyses Gary W. Cox; 9. On problems
and methods Alan Ryan; 10. An analytic narrative approach to puzzles and
problems Margaret Levi; 11. The methodical study of politics Bruce Bueno de
Mesquita; Part III. Possibilities for Pluralism and Convergence: 12. The
illusion of learning from observational research Alan S. Gerber, Donald P.
Green and Edward H. Kaplan; 13. Concepts and commitments in the study of
democracy Lisa Wedeen; 14. Problems chasing methods or methods chasing
problems, research communities, constrained pluralism, and the role of
eclecticism Rudra Sil; 15. Method, problem, faith William E. Connolly; 16.
Provisionalism in the study of politics Elisabeth Ellis; 17. What have we
learned? Robert Dahl, Truman Bewley, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and John
Mearsheimer.