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The internationalization of political science makes it especially difficult to identify a distinctive British approach to comparative politics. While there is certainly evidence of a distaste for cross-national comparison in Britain, this is no more marked than in other countries. In fact, on the evidence of a survey of major journals, Britons make relatively heavy use of the comparative method. British comparative research is less likely to use statistical indicators and methods than that found in other countries. Apart from this, the distinctions between comparative politics here and elsewhere are more matters of style and less matters of substance.

Richard D. Bingham & Laura L. Vertz (see SA 32:1/84N5941) apply block model analysis to identify leadership structures in US political science. However, their starting point is a reputational leadership list derived by Walter B. Roettger ("Strata and Stability: Reputations of American Political Scientists," PS, 1978, 11, winter, 6-13) from a mass survey. It is questionable whether reputational leaders can be theoretically or empirically equated to institutional leaders in this way. Bingham & Vertz also utilize citation behavior, which provides a third possible measure of leadership -- citational leadership. The relations among these three concepts & measures could fruitfully be further explored. In Who's In and Who's Out? An Empirical Question, Richard D. Bingham & Laura L. Vertz (U of Wisconsin, Madison) find value in Dye's suggestions & note further possibilities along the same lines. 5 References. W. H. Stoddard.

Karl Polanyi: Notes - "The Structure of Political Science", n. d. File contains annotated typed notes by Karl Polanyi on "The Structure of Political Science". 3p.

THE AMERICAN POLITY'S DESIGNERS PROCEEDED FROM WHAT JOHN ADAMS CALLED "THE DIVINE SCIENCE OF POLITICS"-AN APPROCH VER Y CLOSE TO THAT OF MODERN EMPIRICAL POLITICAL SCIENCE. IT WAS ROOTED IN THEIR CONVENTION THAT TRUTH IS BEST DISCOVERED BY THE SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATION OF EXPERIENCE;THEY INVESTIGATED EXPERIENCE WITH METHODS PRIMITIVE BY MODERN STANDARDS.