Contemporary Empirical Political Theory
by Kristen R. Monroe
Publisher: University of California Press 1997
ISBN/ASIN: 0520207262
ISBN-13: 9780520207264
Number of pages: 329
Description:
How can we best understand the major debates and recent movements in contemporary empirical political theory? In this volume, the contributors 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.
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