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Methods for political inquiry : the discipline, philosophy, and analysis of politics / edited by Stella Z. Theodoulou, Rory O'Brien.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: xiii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0136755623
  • 9780136755623
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.01
LOC classification:
  • JA66. U54 1999
Contents:
Preface -- Pt. 1. The Discipline of Political Science -- 1. Where We Stand Today: The State of Modern Political Science -- 2. What Is Politics? -- 3. The State in Political Study: How We Become What We Study -- 4. Feminist Challenges to Political Science -- Pt. 2. The Philosophical Debate: Theories and Paradigms -- 5. Normative versus Empirical Theory and Method -- 6. Actual Constitutions and Their Varieties -- 7. Of the Three Kinds of Government: Democracy, Aristocracy, Monarchy -- 8. Philosophy after Its Completion -- 9. A Role for History and Progress through Revolutions -- 10. Scientific Principles in Political Study: Some Enduring Situations -- Pt. 3. The Analysis of Politics -- 11. Starting from Scratch: The Research Process -- 12. There's Method to This Madness: The Fundamentals of Applied Sciences -- 13. How to Statisticulate, and How to Talk Back to a Statistic -- 14. Surfing Bytes: Utilizing the Internet and Your Computer for Social Science Research -- 15. Formal Models in Political Science -- A. Additional Articles Illustrating the Political Research Process -- B. Resources for Research -- C. Putting It All Together: The Research Paper.
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Preface -- Pt. 1. The Discipline of Political Science -- 1. Where We Stand Today: The State of Modern Political Science -- 2. What Is Politics? -- 3. The State in Political Study: How We Become What We Study -- 4. Feminist Challenges to Political Science -- Pt. 2. The Philosophical Debate: Theories and Paradigms -- 5. Normative versus Empirical Theory and Method -- 6. Actual Constitutions and Their Varieties -- 7. Of the Three Kinds of Government: Democracy, Aristocracy, Monarchy -- 8. Philosophy after Its Completion -- 9. A Role for History and Progress through Revolutions -- 10. Scientific Principles in Political Study: Some Enduring Situations -- Pt. 3. The Analysis of Politics -- 11. Starting from Scratch: The Research Process -- 12. There's Method to This Madness: The Fundamentals of Applied Sciences -- 13. How to Statisticulate, and How to Talk Back to a Statistic -- 14. Surfing Bytes: Utilizing the Internet and Your Computer for Social Science Research -- 15. Formal Models in Political Science -- A. Additional Articles Illustrating the Political Research Process -- B. Resources for Research -- C. Putting It All Together: The Research Paper.

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