Problems and methods in the study of politics / edited by Ian Shapiro, Rogers M. Smith, and Tarek E. Masoud.

"This volume grew out of a conference on "Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics" held at Yale in December 2002"--Acknowledgements.

Formerly CIP. Uk

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Problems, methods, and theories in the study of politics, or: what's wrong with political science and what to do about it / Ian Shapiro -- The politics of identities and the tasks of political science / Rogers M. Smith -- Political science as a vocation / Anne Norton -- The politics of policy science / Frances Fox Piven -- The study of black politics and the practice of black politics: their historical relation and evolution / Adolph Reed, Jr. -- External and internal explanation / John Ferejohn -- Lies, damned lies, and rational choice analyses / Gary W. Cox -- Problems and methods in political science: rational explanation and its limits / Alan Ryan -- An analytic narrative approach to puzzles and problems / Margaret Levi -- The methodical study of politics / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita -- The illusion of learning from observational research / Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green, and Edward H. Kaplan -- Concepts and commitments in the study of democracy / Lisa Wedeen -- Problems chasing methods or methods chasing problems? Research communities, constrained pluralism, and the role of eclecticism / Rudra Sil -- Method, problem, faith / William E. Connolly -- Provisionalism in the study of politics / Elisabeth Ellis -- What have we learned? / Robert A. Dahl ... [et al.].