Politics as a Science A Prolegomenon

• Main Authors: Schmitter, Philippe C, Blecher, Marc
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2020; Taylor and Francis; No Funder Information Available; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Conceptualising Comparative Politics
• Subjects: American Trilogy; Anti-capitalist Revolution; Area Studies; Authoritarian Resilience; Called Political Science; civil societies; Civil Society; Comparative government; Comparative government > Study and teaching; Comparative Politics; Elections; Errare Humanum Est; Fragmented Authoritarianism; Governance; Government; History; History & Theory; Human Material Welfare; Human Suffering; International Politics; Introduction to Politics; Introductory Politics; Nonfiction; Political Parties; Political Research Methods; Political Science; Political science > Methodology; Political Systems; Politics; Politics and government; Predictable Magnitude; Quintessential Human Activity; Representation; Research Methods; social movements; Social research and statistics; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; Vice Versa; Violating; Quintessential Human Activity; Authoritarian Resilience; Called Political Science; Human Suffering; Vice Versa; Errare Humanum Est; Research Cycle; Civil Society; Human Material Welfare; Per-capita Wealth; Outsized Ambitions; Violating; Researcher’s Nationality; Interest Associations; Great Exhilaration; American Trilogy; Resurgent Hinduism; Nation State Units; Political Parties; Anti-capitalist Revolution; Normative Political Theorists; Sovereign National State; Predictable Magnitude; Fragmented Authoritarianism; MA Paper
• ISBN: 9781000180169; 1000180166; 9780367469498; 0367464691; 9780367464691; 0367469499; 9781000180190; 1000180220; 9781003032144; 1003032141; 9781000180220; 1000180190
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003032144

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.”