Politics as a science : a prolegomenon

SCHMITTER, Philippe C.; BLECHER, Marc

doi:10.4324/9781003032144

dc.contributor.author	SCHMITTER, Philippe C.
dc.contributor.author	BLECHER, Marc
dc.date.accessioned	2020-11-25T14:36:37Z
dc.date.available	2020-11-25T14:36:37Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.identifier.citation	New York : Routledge, 2021, Conceptualising comparative politics ; 12	en
dc.identifier.isbn	9780367464691
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1814/68995
dc.description.abstract	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.	en
dc.description.tableofcontents	-- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. The Subject Matter -- 1.1. The Core : power and politics -- 1.2. The Exercise of Power -- 2. The Foundations -- 2.1. The Concepts -- 2.2. The Agents -- 2.3. The Cleavages -- 2.4. The Motives -- 2.5. The Processes -- 2.6. The Mechanisms -- 2.7. The Temporalities -- 2.8. The Units -- 2.9. The Regimes -- 3. The Consequences -- 3.1. Order -- 3.2. Production and Distribution -- 3.3. Recognition and Respect -- 3.4. Externalities -- 3.5. Legitimacy -- 4. The Discipline -- 4.1. The Theoretic Trajectory -- 4.2. The Liberal Bias -- 4.3. The Methods -- 5. The Design Of Research -- 5.1. Choice of Topic -- 5.2. Conceptualization -- 5.3. Formation of Hypotheses -- 5.4. Selection of Cases -- 5.5. Proposal Writing -- 5.6. Operationalization of Variables -- 5.7. Measurement -- 5.8. Test for Association -- 5.9. Causal Inference -- 5.10. Evaluation of Results -- Conclusion -- 6. The Purpose -- 7. The Promise -- References -- Index	en
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Routledge	en
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	en
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	Political science	en
dc.subject	Methodology	en
dc.title	Politics as a science : a prolegomenon	en
dc.type	Book	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.4324/9781003032144
dc.rights.license	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International