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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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What Can We Know? How Do We Know?
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Foundational Claims
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Front Matter
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The Product of Inquiry
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The Purpose and Methods of Research
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New Directions
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
"Theory and Evidence provides a much-needed overview of the post-positivist developments in the philosophy of science that are pushing social scientists to re-examine their epistemological and methodological commitments. The essays are accessible and yet informed by a challenging philosophical literature on such subjects as scientific realism and naturalism. Although the editors and contributors range from neo-positivist to interpretivist views, they directly engage one another rather than speaking past each other, and they avoid either Procrustean resolutions or ambiguous compromises among their diverse perspectives. What emerges is a lively and open-minded dialogue that deserves a wide audience in research design and philosophy of social science courses not just in political science, but in economics, sociology, history, and anthropology."
- Andrew Bennett, Professor of Government, Georgetown University'At last, a book that sets forth the terms of a challenging dialogue about the epistemological and ontological foundations of empirical political inquiry. A superb antidote for that large body of empirical research that is mired in a naive positivism long abandoned by philosophy of science, supported by a brilliant case for tolerant methodological pluralism.'
- David Easton, Distinguished Research Professor, University of California, Irvine and Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
Editors and Affiliations
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Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
Richard Ned Lebow
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University of Maryland, USA
Mark Irving Lichbach
About the editors
MARK IRVING LICHBACH is Professor and Chair of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theory and Evidence in Comparative Politics and International Relations
Editors: Richard Ned Lebow, Mark Irving Lichbach
Series Title: New Visions in Security
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230607507
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Richard Ned Lebow and Mark Irving Lichbach 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7456-3Published: 25 September 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7661-1Published: 25 September 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-60750-7Published: 20 August 2007
Series ISSN: 2945-6770
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6789
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 290
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Political Sociology, Political Science, Political History, Comparative Politics