Making Political Science Matter : : Debating Knowledge, Research, and Method / / ed. by Sanford F. Schram, Brian Caterino.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Caterino, Brian,; Clegg, Stewart,; Flyvbjerg, Bent,; Hawkesworth, Mary,; Jackson, Patrick Thaddeus,; Kasza, Gregory J.,; Kettler, David,; Laitin, David D.,; Luke, Timothy W.,; Schatzki, Theodore,; Schram, Sanford F.,; Schwartz-Shea, Peregrine,; Shdaimah, Corey S.,; Stahl, Roland W.,; Thiele, Leslie Paul,
• HerausgeberIn: Caterino, Brian,; Schram, Sanford F.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction Reframing the Debate --; Part I The Flyvbjerg Debate --; 1. Return to Politics: Perestroika, Phronesis, and Post-Paradigmatic Political Science --; 2. The Perestroikan Challenge to Social Science --; 3. A Perestroikan Straw Man Answers Back: 56 David Laitin and Phronetic Political Science --; 4. A Statistician Strikes Out: In Defense of 86 Genuine Methodological Diversity --; 5. Reflections on Doing Phronetic Social Science: 98 A Case Study --; Part II Phronesis Reconsidered --; 6. Social Science in Society --; 7. Power and Interpretation --; 8. Contesting the Terrain: Flyvbjerg on Facts, Value, 152 Knowledge, and Power --; 9. The Bounds of Rationality --; 10. Making Intuition Matter --; Part III Making Political Science Matter --; 11. Conundrums in the Practice of Pluralism --; 12. Unearthing the Roots of Hard Science: A Program for Graduate Students --; 13. Political Science and Political Theory: The Heart of the Matter --; 14. Finding New Mainstreams: Perestroika, Phronesis, and Political Science in the United States --; References --; About the Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814783566; 9783110706444
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814783566.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Sanford F. Schram, Brian Caterino.

Making Political Science Matter brings together a number of prominent scholars to discuss the state of the field of Political Science. In particular, these scholars are interested in ways to reinvigorate the discipline by connecting it to present day political struggles. Uniformly well-written and steeped in a strong sense of history, the contributors consider such important topics as: the usefulness of rational choice theory; the ethical limits of pluralism; the use (and misuse) of empirical research in political science; the present-day divorce between political theory and empirical science; the connection between political science scholarship and political struggles, and the future of the discipline. This volume builds on the debate in the discipline over the significance of the work of Bent Flyvbjerg, whose book Making Social Science Matter has been characterized as a manifesto for the Perestroika Movement that has roiled the field in recent years.Contributors include: Brian Caterino, Stewart Clegg, Bent Flyvbjerg, Mary Hawkesworth, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, Gregory J. Kasza, David Kettler, David D. Laitin, Timothy W. Luke, Theodore R. Schatzki, Sanford F. Schram, Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, Corey S. Shdaimah, Roland W. Stahl, and Leslie Paul Thiele.