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Making Political Science Matter : Debating Knowledge, Research, and Method.
Title:
Making Political Science Matter : Debating Knowledge, Research, and Method.
Author:
Schram, Sanford F.
ISBN:
9780814783566
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (288 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: The Flyvbjerg Debate -- 1. Return to Politics -- 2. The Perestroikan Challenge to Social Science -- 3. A Perestroikan Straw Man Answers Back -- 4. A Statistician Strikes Out -- 5. Reflections on Doing Phronetic Social Science -- PART II: Phronesis Reconsidered -- 6. Social Science in Society -- 7. Power and Interpretation -- 8. Contesting the Terrain -- 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 -- 13. Political Science and Political Theory -- 14. Finding New Mainstreams -- References -- About the Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
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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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