Making political science matter : debating knowledge, research, and method / edited by Sanford F. Schram and Brian Caterino.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schram, Sanford.

Caterino, Brian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science--Research--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2006.

Summary:

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 such important 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

Contents:

Return to politics: perestroika, phronesis, and post-paradigmatic political science / Sanford F. Schram

The perestroikan challenge to social science / David D. Laitin

A perestroikan straw man answers back: David Laitin and phronetic political science / Bent Flyvbjerg

A statistician strikes out: in defense of genuine methodological diversity / Patrick Thaddeus Jackson

Reflections on doing phronetic social science: a case study / Corey S. Shdaimah and Roland W. Stahl

Social science in society / Theodore Schatzki

Power and interpretation / Brian Caterino

Contesting the terrain: Flyvbjerg on facts, value, knowledge, and power / Mary Hawkesworth

The bounds of rationality / Stewart Clegg

Making intuition matter / Leslie Paul Thiele

Conundrums in the practice of pluralism / Peregrine Schwartz-Shea

Unearthing the roots of hard science: a program for graduate students / Greg J. Kasza

Political science and political theory: the heart of the matter / David Kettler

Finding new mainstreams: perestroika, phronesis, and political science in the United States / Timothy W. Luke.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-292) and index.

ISBN:

0-8147-8356-2

1-4294-9018-7

OCLC:

913695275