Politics as a Science

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 t...

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Main Authors: Schmitter, Philippe C., Blecher, Marc
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description 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.”
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American Trilogy
Vice Versa
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Human Suffering
Predictable Magnitude
Area Studies
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Introduction to Politics
Research Methods
Violating
Political Systems
Political Parties
Governance
Civil Society
Government
Quintessential Human Activity
Elections
Human Material Welfare
Representation
Anti-capitalist Revolution
Authoritarian Resilience
civil societies
Fragmented Authoritarianism
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social movements
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topic Errare Humanum Est
American Trilogy
Vice Versa
Comparative Politics
Human Suffering
Predictable Magnitude
Area Studies
Called Political Science
Introduction to Politics
Research Methods
Violating
Political Systems
Political Parties
Governance
Civil Society
Government
Quintessential Human Activity
Elections
Human Material Welfare
Representation
Anti-capitalist Revolution
Authoritarian Resilience
civil societies
Fragmented Authoritarianism
political science
social movements
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Vice Versa
Comparative Politics
Human Suffering
Predictable Magnitude
Area Studies
Called Political Science
Introduction to Politics
Research Methods
Violating
Political Systems
Political Parties
Governance
Civil Society
Government
Quintessential Human Activity
Elections
Human Material Welfare
Representation
Anti-capitalist Revolution
Authoritarian Resilience
civil societies
Fragmented Authoritarianism
political science
social movements
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