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Idioms of Inquiry : Critique and Renewal in Political Science SUNY Series in Political Theory. Contemporary Issues
author
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Ball, Terence.
publisher
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State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin
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0887064582
print isbn13
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9780887064586
ebook isbn13
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9780585087894
language
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English
subject
Political science--Philosophy.
publication date
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1987
lcc
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JA71.I35 1987eb
ddc
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320/.01
subject
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Political science--Philosophy.
Idioms of Inquiry
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SUNY Series in Political Theory: Contemporary Issues John G. Gunnell, Editor
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Idioms of Inquiry
Critique and Renewal in Political Science
Edited by TERENCE BALL
State University of New York Press
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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1987 State University of New York
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y., 12246
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Idioms of inquiry
(SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues)
Includes index.
1. Political sciencePhilosophy. I. Ball, Terence. II. Series.
JA71.135 1987 32001 86-23033
ISBN 0-88706-457-4
ISBN 0-88706-458-2 (pbk.)
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3
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CONTNETS
Preface
vii
Introduction
1
Part I. Rationality and Progress in Political Inquiry
1. Is There Progress in Political Science? Terence Ball
13
2. Resituating Explanation James Farr
45
3. Rational Choice Theories Russell Hardin
67
Part II. Interpretation and Critique
4. Deadly Hermeneutics; or, Sinn and the Social Scientist Terence Ball
95
5. Toward a Critical Political Science Stephen K. White
113
6. Interpretation, Genealogy, and Human Agency Michael T. Gibbons
137
Part III. Beyond Empiricism and Hermeneutics
7. Political Inquiry: Beyond Empiricism and Hermeneutics Fred Dallmayr
169
8. After Empiricism: The Realist Alternative Jeffrey C. Isaac
187
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Part VI. Political Science and Political Discourse
9. Male-Ordered Politics: Feminism and Political Science Kathy E. Ferguson
209
10.Political Science and Political Choice: Opacity, Freedom, and Knowledge J. Donald Moon
231
Contributors
249
Index
251
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PREFACE
My aim in commissioning these essays has been twofold. It is first of all critical: despite our other differences, we are agreed that former modes of political inquiry have yielded less than was once hoped for and are now largely exhausted. My second and more important aim is ultimately constructive: We want to suggest several alternative ways to talk and therefore to think about and practice political inquiry. By introducing and exploring these alternative idioms of inquiry, we hope to contribute something of value to the continuing conversation regarding not only how politics is to be understood but also how it is to be practiced. That is, we want to emphasize that the questions raised here, far from being of an abstractly academic character, have a bearing not only on our practices as political inquirers but as political agents and citizens as well.
I would like to express my special thanks to the editor of this series, John G. Gunnell, for his early encouragement and subsequent patience. My thanks also to Michele Martin of State University of New York Press for her uncommon tact and editorial expertise and to Judith Block for her help in seeing this project through its final phase. My most heartfelt thanks must be reserved for the contributors, who agreed to join, and then steadfastly stayed with, this slow and sometimes balky enterprise.
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INTRODUCTION
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Political scientists exhibit a recurrent and almost obsessive interest in the state of their discipline (Finifter 1983; Nelson 1983). And when the patient's temperature and pulse are taken, its condition is almost always revealed to be even worse than was originally expected. Political science, it is said, suffers from a variety of ailments. It is afflicted with wild mood swings ranging from euphoria to listlessness, depression, and a lack of direction; it has failed to become a genuine science; it is compartmentalized into hermetically sealed subfields and further bifurcated into those that are normative and those that are empirical. The poor patient is, in short, in mortal peril. Having been thus diagnosed, however, the patient is periodically pumped up with shots in the arm, kicks in the pants, or more recently the miracle cure afforded by this or that new paradigm. The realization that yesterday's miracle drugs look suspiciously like snake oil only adds to the widely shared sense of malaise.
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