E-raamat: Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics

Introduction: problems and methods in the study of politics Ian Shapiro, Rogers Smith and Tarek Masoud
1. Problems, methods and theories Ian Shapiro
2. Of problems and methods Rogers Smith
3. Political science as vocation Anne Norton
4. The politics of policy science Frances Fox Piven
5. The study of black politics and the practice of black politics Adolph Reed
6. External and internal explanation John Ferejohn
7. Lies, damned lies, and rational choice analyses Gary W. Cox
8. Problems and methods in political science Alan Ryan
9. An analytic narrative approach to puzzles and problems Margaret Levi
10. The methodical study of politics Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
11. The illusion of learning from observational research Donald Green
12. Concepts and commitments in the study of democracy Lisa Wedeen
13. Problems chasing methods or methods chasing problems? Rudra Sil
14. Method, problem, faith William E. Connolly
15. Provisionalism in the study of politics Elisabeth Ellis
Epilogue: What have we learned? Truman Bewley, Robert A. Dahl, John Mearsheimer and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph.

Ian Shapiro is William R. Kenan, Jr Professor and Chair of Political Science at Yale University. His many books include The State of Democratic Theory, The Moral Foundations of Politics, Democratic Justice, and (with Donald Green) Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory. Rogers M. Smith is the Christopher H. Browne distinguished Professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His previous books include Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History, Liberalism and American Constitutional Law, and Stories of Peoplehood: The Politics and Morals of Political Membership. Tarek Masoud is an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. His current research focuses on the politics of religion in the Islamic world, particularly the ways in which Islamist parties shape - and are shaped by - their political environments. He is the co-editor of Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and Order, Conflict, and Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2008). He is the recipient of grants from the National Science Foundation and the Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation. He is a graduate of Brown and Yale Universities.