Political science : the state of the discipline / edited by Ada W. Finifter. - Washington, D.C. : American Political Science Association, 1983 - viii, 614 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Part I. Political science : The discipline and its scope and theory -- Political theory : The evolution of a sub-field / Political theory and the art of heresthetics / Toward theories of data : The state of political methodology / Self portrait : Profile of political scientists / The scholarly commitment to parties / The forest for the trees : Blazing trails for congressional research / Judicial politics : Still a distinctive field / Public policy analysis : Some recent developments and current problems / Federalism : The challenge of conflicting theories and contemporary practice / Comparative public policy : An assessment / Studying the politics of development and change : The state of the art / Voting behavior research in the 1980s : An examination of some old and new problem areas / Diversity and complexity in American public opinion / Changing paradigms in comparative political behavior / The elusive paradigm : Gender, politics and political behavior / Theory of world politics : Structural realism and beyond / International interactions and processes : The internal vs. external debate revisited / Politics and the uses of social science research / Basic inquiry and applied use in the social sciences / John G. Gunnell -- William H. Riker -- Christopher H. Achen -- Naomi B. Lynn -- Leon D. Epstein -- Leroy N. Rieselbach -- Lawrence Baum -- Susan B. Hansen -- David R. Beam, Timothy J. Conlan, David B. Walker -- M. Donald Hancock -- Joel S. Migdal -- Herbert B. Asher -- Donald R. Kinder -- Ronald Inglehart -- Marianne Githens -- Robert O. Keohane -- Bruce Russett -- Donna E. Shalala -- Donald E. Stokes. Part II. American political processes and policymaking -- Part III. Comparative political processes and policymaking -- Part IV. Micropolitical behavior : American and comparative -- Part V. International politics -- Part VI. Addresses from the 1982 Lasswell symposium : The uses of social science --

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Political science--Methodology.
Science politique--Méthodologie.
Politieke wetenschappen.

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