The study of politics seems endlessly beset by debates about
method. At the core of these debates is a single unifying concern:
should political scientists view themselves primarily as
scientists, developing ever more sophisticated tools and studying
only those phenomena to which such tools may fruitfully be applied?
Or should they instead try to illuminate the large, complicated,
untidy problems thrown up in the world, even if the chance to offer
definitive explanations is low? Is there necessarily a tension
between these two endeavours? Are some domains of political inquiry
more amenable to the building up of reliable, scientific knowledge
than others, and if so, how should we deploy our efforts? In this
book, some of the world's most prominent students of politics offer
original discussions of these pressing questions, eschewing narrow
methodological diatribes to explore what political science is and
how political scientists should aspire to do their work.
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