Beschreibung:
In this concise but wide-ranging text, Alan Zuckerman introduces the reader to the various approaches to political explanation. He shows how researchers espousing different theoretical assumptions, levels of explanation, variables, and data come to offer conflicting accounts of the phenomena to be studied. He then introduces five paradigms of polit
The Point of Departure -- Explaining Political Phenomena: The Case of Turnout in National Elections -- Research Schools in Political Science -- How Research Schools Structure Analysis and Produce Conflicting Visions of Politics -- How We Know When We Know: Testing Claims to Knowledge in Political Science -- What We Mean When We Call Political Science a Science: Ambiguity and Certainty in the Pursuit of Knowledge