Politics as a Science: A Prolegomenon (Conceptualising Comparative Politics)

By: Philippe C. Schmitter and Marc Blecher

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Synopsis: In Politics as a Science, two of the world's leading authorities on Comparative Politics, Philippe C. Schmitter and Marc Blecher, provide a lively introduction to the concepts and framework to study and analyze politics. Written with dexterity, concision and clarity, this short text makes no claim to being scientific. It contains no disprovable hypotheses, no original collection of evidence and no search for patterns of association. Instead, Schmitter and Blecher keep the text broadly conceptual and theoretical to convey their vision of the sprawling subject of politics. They map the process in which researchers try to specify the goal of the trip, some of the landmarks likely to be encountered en route and the boundaries that will circumscribe the effort. Examples, implications and elaborations are included in footnotes throughout the book. Politics as a Science is an ideal introduction for anyone interested in, or studying, comparative politics. “The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781003032144, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.”

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781000180220
Related ISBNs:: 9781003032144, 9780367469498, 9780367469498, 9780367464691, 9780367464691
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 07/21/20
Copyrighted By:: Philippe C. Schmitter
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
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Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.