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In this concise but wide-ranging text, Alan Zuckerman introduces the reader to the various approaches to political explanation. He shows how researchers espousing different theoretical assumptions, levels of explanation, variables, and data come to offer conflicting accounts of the phenomena to be studied. He then introduces five paradigms of polit

This book, originally published in 1959, makes explicit the social principles which underlie the procedures and political practice of the modern democratic state. The authors take the view that in the modern welfare state there are problems connected with the nature of law, with concepts like rights, justice, equality, property, punishment, responsibility and liberty and which modern philosophical techniques can illuminate.

Originally published in 1975, this book advocates a certain approach to the study of government: the focus should be institutional, the method comparative and the level practical. The book divides into 2 sections on political science and public administration but the themes are common, as is much of the subject matter. Chapters on the institutional and comparative approach are intended to show how political institutions are often designed to reflect political theories, how institutional engineering may take place and how lessons for domestic reform may be learnt from foreign experience. The second section looks at the state of public administration studies in Britain, the nature of the subject, drawing on the work of earlier theorists, the role of the universities and the civic contribution such study can make

Intro -- Experimental Political Science -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Experimental Political Science in Perspective -- Part I Overview -- Chapter 2 Voting Behavior and Political Institutions: An Overview of Challenging Questions in Theory and Experimental Research -- Chapter 3 Laboratory Tests of Formal Theory and Behavioral Inference -- Chapter 4 Voting Mechanism Design: Modeling Institutions in Experiments -- Part II Experimental Designs -- Chapter 5 Strategic Voting in the Laboratory -- Chapter 6 Survey Experiments: Partisan Cues in Multi-party Systems -- Chapter 7 Experimental Triangulation of Coalition Signals: Varying Designs, Converging Results -- Part III Exploring and Analyzing Experimental Data -- Chapter 8 Statistical Analysis of Experimental Data -- Chapter 9 Experimental Chats: Opening the Black Box of Group Experiments -- Part IV Challenges to Inferences from Experiments -- Chapter 10 On the Validity of Laboratory Research in the Political and Social Sciences: The Example of Crime and Punishment -- Chapter 11 Gathering Counter-Factual Evidence: An Experimental Study on Voters' Responses to Pre-Electoral Coalitions -- Chapter 12 Using Time in the Laboratory -- Part V Conclusion -- 13 Conclusion: Ways Ahead in Experimental Political Science -- Appendix: Resources for Experimental Research in the Social Sciences -- Index.