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aThis edited collection offers and up-to-date and very readable
discussion of knowledge, research, and method in the political
sciences and social studies more generally, suitable for academics
and doctoral students alike.a
--Thomas Ahrens, University of Warwick
aArticulates and debates the idea that academic work should be
primarily concerned with addressing the largest and most immediate
challenges faced by societies.a--"Urban Studies"
aDevotees of the perestroika movement will find many of the
chapters reinforce their views of the field. . . .
Recommended.a--"Choice"
"A significant and thoughtful discussion of key issues in the
philosophy of social science, one designed to encourage a richer
variety of methodological work in political science."
--Kristen Renwick Monroe, editor of "Perestroika! The Raucous
Rebellion in Political Science"
"A bold call to rethink political science. The authors imagine a
discipline that challenges power, challenges society, and
challenges the ways we think. Making Political Science Matter is a
wise, erudite, broad-ranging, sometimes witty gauntlet tossed
before contemporary scholarship. It is more than a book, it is a
movement."
--James A. Morone, author of "Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin
in American History"
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 suchimportant 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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