Making Political Science Matter : : Debating Knowledge, Research, and Method /

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

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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 s...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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