A Homily on Method

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Questions about the conduct of political science which were considered settled in the 1960s can now be reopened with the advantages of hindsight. This is necessary not only because the early promise of "behavioralism" is largely unfulfilled, but also because after extensive borrowings from neoclassical economics, European social theory, and other recondite sources, our practice is no longer particularly behavioralist anyway. Unfortunately, discussion of these issues is hindered by subfield boundaries. For that reason, this article is not addressed primarily to specialists in political philosophy, philosophy of science, or hermeneutics, but to mainstream political scientists and to their graduate students. Some of the usual scholarly trimmings have been sacrificed for the sake of accessibility, and the author has employed a terminology of his own coinage in order to make the article self-contained.

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