POLITICS AS A SCIENCE

In Politics as a Science two of the worlds leading authorities on Comparative Politics Philippe C. Schmitter and Marc Blecher provide a lively introduction to the concepts and framework to study and analyze politics.Written with dexterity concision and clarity this short text makes no claim to being scientific. It contains no disprovable hypotheses no original collection of evidence and no search for patterns of association. Instead Schmitter and Blecher keep the text broadly conceptual and theoretical to convey their vision of the sprawling subject of politics. They map the process in which researchers try to specify the goal of the trip some of the landmarks likely to be encountered en route and the boundaries that will circumscribe the effort. Examples implications and elaborations are included in footnotes throughout the book.Politics as a Science is an ideal introduction for anyone interested in or studying comparative politics.“The Open Access version of this book available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781003032144 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.”