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In response to Eric Godelier's call for a partnership between business history and the management sciences I argue for a vision of business history as history. Whilst acknowledging the institutional and intellectual pressures to which the discipline is subject I argue such a turn is important for the continued health of the field. Such a turn will, however, also require engaging with fundamental questions of epsitemology.

The use of statistics in political science is examined on the basis of classification, by the degree to which their approach was quantitative, of 4,348 papers published between 1950 & 1978 in 5 US journals dealing with the field of political science as a whole. An increase in the use of statistics over time is found. There is an association between quantitative papers & collaborative efforts. A marked increase in the extent of collaborations is found. 4 Tables, 2 Figures. Modified HA.

Examines the use of student learning assessment and learning objectives, for the purposes of regional accreditation; based on a 2000 survey of 213 US college and university departments with undergraduate and/or graduate political science courses.

"Quantitative Methods and Feminist Political Science" published on by Oxford University Press.

It is suggested that political scientists interested in the place of women in politics should be wary of a standard epistemological ploy in modern political science, ie, the adoption of concepts from other social sciences without placing them into a broader context. This argument is made by an examination of the widespread usage of the notion of an "ethic of care" in contemporary analysis of women in politics. This notion, derived in its most recent formulation from the developmental psychology of Carol Gilligan (eg, see In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development, Cambridge: Harvard U Press, 1982), has historical antecedents in the Scottish Enlightenment. Close examination of this historical account of caring belies the special attachment between women & caring & suggests important questions about how political scientists should look at the question of care. 36 References. HA

"This volume offers a novel account of political trials that is empirically rigorous and theoretically sophisticated, linking state-of- the-art research on telling cases to a broad argument about political trials as a socio-legal phenomenon. All the contributors analyse the logic of the political in the courtroom. From archival research to participant observation, and from linguistic anthropology to game theory, the volume offers a genuinely interdisciplinary set of approaches that substantially advance existing knowledge about what political trials are, how they work, and why they matter"--

THE AUTHOR SUGGESTS THAT UNDUE FIXATION ON SCIENCE HAS OBSCURED THE IMPORTANCE FOR HIS POLITICAL THEORY OF WHAT THOMAS HOBBES CALLS PRUDENCE. HE TRYS TO SHOW THAT THE SCOPE OF SCIENCE FOR HOBBES IS ACTUALLY NARROW AND LIMITED, AND THAT THIS HOLDS FOR CIVIL SCIENCE AS WELL AS FOR NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. HE ARGUES THAT A MOST IMPORTANT PART OF HOBBE'S ACCOUNT OF POLITICAL LIFE IS HIS VIEW THAT THE FAULT LIES IN THE MISGUIDED BELIEFS OF THE PRIVILEGED. ALSO, THAT THE COMBINATION OF THE LIMITATIONS OF CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE, THE PROPENSITY TO EMBRACE ILL-CONCEIVED IF NOT UTTERLY FANTASTIC BELIEFS, AND THE ALL TOO EASY ABUSE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE ACCOUNT FOR THE CHARACTER OF THE SELF-UNDERSTANDING AND THE POLITICAL ORDER THAT HOBBES INSISTS WE WOULD HAVE TO EMBRACE TO ENSURE THE AVOIDANCE OF ANARCHY.