Category: political methodology

To be sure, some political scientists do that, just like biologists and physicists—on their own time, and not with NSF money. I think it is likely that these estimates will change before our final analysis is published; in particular, we …

But my own undergraduate adviser told me that the more of this stuff that I could get out of the way before I got to graduate school, the more that I could focus on learning the substance of the field …

The Standing Group promotes collaboration with sections of other political science associations and ECPR Standing Groups, as well as the ECPR Methods School to create an open forum of dialogue. Hitherto political thinkers had regarded man as a rational being …

David Thomson of the Opinion that until some such statistical and sociological technique is applied to international relations, the science of studying international relations will make little further progress in the method. It is also necessary to stress the sociological …

The first desideratum for a political scientist, he said, “is to get the fact and then make sure of it. Examine it in its relation to them, for in that lies its worth and its significance. Mill held the first …

If skillfully framed and conducted, such polls have shown themselves, in Britain as in America, capable of a high degree of accuracy. The comparative analysis does not have as its guiding principle the assumption that there is one best way …

In an article published in 1957, An Approach to the Analysis of Political System’s Easton suggested that a solution to comparing governments could be found by examining political life in terms of a system receiving certain inputs from the society …

But my own undergraduate adviser told me that the more of this stuff that I could get out of the way before I got to graduate school, the more that I could focus on learning the substance of the field …