Methods for Political Inquiry

Methods for Political Inquiry
Title Methods for Political Inquiry PDF eBook
Author Stella Z. Theodoulou
Publisher Pearson
Pages 248
Release 1999
Genre Philosophy
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This book presents a readily accessible, systematic approach to politics and its principles, around which political inquiry should be organized. Readers are exposed to materials on the fundamental assumptions of political inquiry in addition to the specific devices necessary for gathering and collecting data about political phenomena. Methods for Political Inquiry represents the only book currently available that covers the full range of both research methods and research techniques. It incorporates both normative and empirical theory building, as well as qualitative and quantitative research methods, to emphasize why researchers might use one technique over another.

Strategies of Political Inquiry

Strategies of Political Inquiry
Title Strategies of Political Inquiry PDF eBook
Author Elinor Ostrom
Publisher SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Pages 236
Release 1982-06
Genre Political Science
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The essays in this volume, written by leading political scientists, express discontent with the prevailing basis of political studies. They find that the acceptance of a logical positivist view of what makes a valid theory has led to a concentration on questions of method. How to describe political relationships quantitatively, how to measure and compare patterns of policy and behaviour: these are the kind of topics that have concerned researchers not dedicated solely to qualitative methods. They are seeking, still, an empirical foundation for political science, clear cut and consistent patterns that are repeated often enough in the data to need theories to account for them.

Methods of Political Inquiry

Methods of Political Inquiry
Title Methods of Political Inquiry PDF eBook
Author Rakhahari Chatterji
Publisher Calcutta : World Press
Pages 256
Release 1979
Genre Political science
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The Disorder of Political Inquiry

The Disorder of Political Inquiry
Title The Disorder of Political Inquiry PDF eBook
Author Keith Topper
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 337
Release 2009-07-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0674044401

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In the past several years two academic controversies have migrated from the classrooms and courtyards of college and university campuses to the front pages of national and international newspapers: Alan Sokal’s hoax, published in the journal Social Text, and the self-named movement, “Perestroika,” that recently emerged within the discipline of political science. Representing radically different analytical perspectives, these two incidents provoked wide controversy precisely because they brought into sharp relief a public crisis in the social sciences today, one that raises troubling questions about the relationship between science and political knowledge, and about the nature of objectivity, truth, and meaningful inquiry in the social sciences. In this provocative and timely book, Keith Topper investigates the key questions raised by these and other interventions in the “social science wars” and offers unique solutions to them. Engaging the work of thinkers such as Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, Pierre Bourdieu, Roy Bhaskar, and Hannah Arendt, as well as recent literature in political science and the history and philosophy of science, Topper proposes a pluralist, normative, and broadly pragmatist conception of political inquiry, one that is analytically rigorous yet alive to the notorious vagaries, idiosyncrasies, and messy uncertainties of political life.

Scope and Methods of Political Science

Scope and Methods of Political Science
Title Scope and Methods of Political Science PDF eBook
Author Alan C. Isaak
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Pages 340
Release 1985
Genre Political Science
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Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry

Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry
Title Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry PDF eBook
Author John G. Gunnell
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 201
Release 2020-02-10
Genre Political Science
ISBN 022666127X

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When social scientists and social theorists turn to the work of philosophers for intellectual and practical authority, they typically assume that truth, reality, and meaning are to be found outside rather than within our conventional discursive practices. John G. Gunnell argues for conventional realism as a theory of social phenomena and an approach to the study of politics. Drawing on Wittgenstein’s critique of “mentalism” and traditional realism, Gunnell argues that everything we designate as “real” is rendered conventionally, which entails a rejection of the widely accepted distinction between what is natural and what is conventional. The terms “reality” and “world” have no meaning outside the contexts of specific claims and assumptions about what exists and how it behaves. And rather than a mysterious source and repository of prelinguistic meaning, the “mind” is simply our linguistic capacities. Taking readers through contemporary forms of mentalism and realism in both philosophy and American political science and theory, Gunnell also analyzes the philosophical challenges to these positions mounted by Wittgenstein and those who can be construed as his successors.

A Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics

A Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics
Title A Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics PDF eBook
Author George Cornewall Lewis (Rt. Hon. Sir.)
Publisher
Pages 502
Release 1852
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