Political Science : The Science of Politics.
Title:
Political Science : The Science of Politics.
Author:
Weisberg, Herbert F.
ISBN:
9780875862743
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Contents:
POLITICAL SCIENCE: The Science of Politics -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- About the Contributors -- Part I The Science of Political Science -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS AND POLITICAL CHANGE -- CHAPTER 2 POLITICAL SCIENCE AS SCIENCE -- CHAPTER 3 THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS AND ITS LIMITS -- Part II The Science of Political Institutions -- CHAPTER 4 INSTITUTIONAL EQUILIBRIUM AND EQUILIBRIUM INSTITUTIONS -- CHAPTER 5 THE CYCLES OF LEGISLATIVE CHANGE: BUILDING A DYNAMIC THEORY -- CHAPTER 6 PRESIDENTIAL. AND EXECUTIVE STUDIES: THE ONE, THE FEW, AND THE MANY -- CHAPTER 7 THE SOCIAL SCIENCE OF JUDICIAL POLITICS -- CHAPTER 8 THE POSITIVE THEORY OF HIERARCHIES -- Part III The Science of Political Behavior -- CHAPTER 9 STRUCTURAL ESTIMATION WITH LIMITED VARIABLES -- CHAPTER 10 THE DYNAMICS OF PUBLIC OPINION -- CHAPTER 11 CHOICE, CONTEXT, AND CONSEQUENCE: Beaten and Unbeaten Paths toward a Science of Electoral Behavior -- CHAPTER 12 MODEL CHOICE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE: The Case of Voting Behavior Research, 1 946 - 1 975 -- Author Index.
Abstract:
If at one time we thought that the movement to science would yield unification of the discipline, it is now apparent that there are many roads to science. Still it is important for us to consider yet again what the appropriate goals are for our scientific enterprise. What works in theory building; induction and deduction; prediction and control; the search for useful principles to guide us - examining these questions, we can build a better science. Political science has come so far as a discipline that different schools and scholars have different interpretations of science in the study of politics, and that diversity is important to maintain. Advances made in the study of political institutions and behavior are described in twelve essays from the 1983 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association . Addressing they do not employ any single approach to the study of the science of politics. Taken as a whole, they illustrate the multiplicity of interpretations that are presently given to the common enterprise.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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