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Additional authors

1. Monroe, Kristen Renwick, 1946-

Description

1. 329 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. How can we best understand the major debates and recent movements in contemporary empirical political theory? In this volume, the contributors, including four past presidents of the APSA and one past president of the IPSA, present their views of the central core, methodologies and development of empirical political science. Their disparate views of the unifying themes of the discipline reflect different theoretical orientations, from behavioralism to rational choice, cultural theory to postmodernism, and feminism to Marxism.
2. Is there a human nature on which we can construct scientific theories of political life? What is the role of culture in shaping any such nature? How objective and value-free can political theories be? These are only a few of the issues the volume addresses. By assessing where we have traveled intellectually as a discipline and asking what remains of lasting significance in the various theoretical approaches that have engulfed the profession, Contemporary Empirical Political Theory provides an important evaluation of the current state of empirical political theory and a valuable guide to future developments in political science.

Subject

1. 1800-1999
2. Political science > History > 19th century
3. Political science > History > 20th century
4. Political science
5. Empiricism
6. Political science > History
7. political science
8. 89.01 history of political science
9. Empirie
10. Politische Theorie
11. Aufsatzsammlung
12. Politieke wetenschappen
13. Empirische methoden
14. Science politique > Histoire > 20e siècle
15. Science politique
16. Culture politique
17. Science politique > Histoire > 19e siècle

Genre/Form

1. History.
2. Aufsatzsammlung.

Contents

1. Introduction : empirical political theory / Kristen Renwick Monroe -- The future of postbehavioral phase in political science / David Easton -- Paradoxos theoretikos / John G. Gunnell -- Seven durable axes of cleavage in political science / Bernard Grofman -- Political science : drunken walk or functional evolution? / J.A. Laponce -- Veiled uses of empirical political theories / Murray Edelman -- Oedipean complexities and political science : tragedy and the search for knowledge / J. Peter Euben -- Empiracal theory 1997 : who's kissing him-or her-now? / Catherine Zuckert and Michael Zuckert -- The misunderstood promise of realist social theory / Alexander Wendt and Ian Shapiro -- The ferment of the 1950s and the development of rational choice theory / William H. Riker -- Theory on the prowl / Russell Hardin -- The political system and comparative politics : the contribution of David Easton / Gabriel A. Almond -- How feminist scholarship could change political science / Nancy C.M. Hartsock -- Political theory and public policy : Marx, Weber, and a republican theory of the state / Theodore J. Lowi and Edward J. Harpham -- Human nature, identity, and the search for a general theory of politics / Kristen Renwick Monroe.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.