Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics 1st Edition by Ian Shapiro, Rogers M Smith, Tarek E Masoud ISBN 0521539439 978-0521539432 by Ian Shapiro, Rogers M. Smith, Tarek E. Masoud 9780521831741, 0521831741 instant download after payment.

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ISBN 10: 0521539439

ISBN 13: 978-0521539432 

Author: Ian Shapiro, Rogers M. Smith, Tarek E. Masoud 

In this volume some of the world's most prominent scholars of politics offer original discussions exploring what political science is and how political scientists should aspire to do their work. Although beset by constant debate about method, at the core of the study of politics is the unifying concern as to whether political scientists should view themselves primarily as scientists, or, instead, try to focus their knowledge on resolving the many complex world crises currently happening.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction

• Introduction: problems and methods in the study of politics

Part I. Description, explanation, and agency

• Problems, methods, and theories in the study of politics, or: what's wrong with political science and what to do about it

• The politics of identities and the tasks of political science

• Political science as a vocation

• The politics of policy science

• The study of black politics and the practice of black politics: their historical relation and evolution

• External and internal explanation

Part II. Redeeming rational choice theory?

• Lies, damned lies, and rational choice analyses

• Problems and methods in political science: rational explanation and its limits

• An analytic narrative approach to puzzles and problems

• The methodical study of politics

Part III. Possibilities for pluralism and convergence

• The illusion of learning from observational research

• Concepts and commitments in the study of democracy

• Problems chasing methods or methods chasing problems? Research communities, constrained pluralism, and the role of eclecticism

• Method, problem, faith

• Provisionalism in the study of politics

• What have we learned?

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