Authors: Ian Shapiro (Editor), Rogers M. Smith (Editor), Tarek E. Masoud
ISBN-13: 9780521831741, ISBN-10: 0521831741
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: June 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Ian Shapiro is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor and Chair of Political Science at Yale University. His many books include The State of Democratic Theory, The Moral Foundations of Politics, Democratic Justice, and (with Donald Green) Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory.
Rogers M. Smith is the Christopher H. Browne distinguished Professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His previous books include Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History, Liberalism and American Constitutional Law, and Stories of Peoplehood: The Politics and Morals of Political Membership.
Rarek E. Masoud is a Doctoral student in Political Science at Yale University. His work centers on comparative politics and political economy.
Prominent scholars of politics offer original discussions exploring what political science is and how it should be studied.
1 | Introduction : problems and methods in the study of politics | 1 |
2 | Problems, methods, and theories in the study of politics, or, what's wrong with political science and what to do about it | 19 |
3 | The politics of identities and the tasks of political science | 42 |
4 | Political science as a vocation | 67 |
5 | The politics of policy science | 83 |
6 | The study of black politics and the practice of black politics : their historical relation and evolution | 106 |
7 | External and internal explanation | 144 |
8 | Lies, damned lies, and rational choice analyses | 167 |
9 | Problems and methods in political science : rational explanation and its limits | 186 |
10 | An analytic narrative approach to puzzles and problems | 201 |
11 | The methodical study of politics | 227 |
12 | The illusion of learning from observational research | 251 |
13 | Concepts and commitments in the study of democracy | 274 |
14 | Problems chasing methods or methods chasing problems? : research communities, constrained pluralism, and the role of eclecticism | 307 |
15 | Method, problem, faith | 332 |
16 | Provisionalism in the study of politics | 350 |
17 | What have we learned? | 377 |