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Making Political Science Matter: Debating Knowledge, Research, and Method

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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; the connection between political science scholarship and political struggles, and the future ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
New York University Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814740330
SKU
V9780814740330
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About Schram
Sanford F. Schram teaches social theory and social policy in the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College where he also teaches research methods for undergraduate political science majors. He is the author of several books including Words of Welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty which won the Michael ... Read more

Reviews for Making Political Science Matter: Debating Knowledge, Research, and Method
Devotees of the perestroika movement will find many of the chapters reinforce their views of the field. . . . Recommended.
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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 ... Read more

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