Political Science and the Practical Problem of Peace
In: The Western political quarterly: official journal of Western Political Science Association, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 917
ISSN: 0043-4078
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In: The Western political quarterly: official journal of Western Political Science Association, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 917
ISSN: 0043-4078
In: The Western political quarterly, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 917-931
ISSN: 1938-274X
In: The Western political quarterly: official journal of Western Political Science Association, Band 12, S. 917-931
ISSN: 0043-4078
In: The bulletin of the atomic scientists: a magazine of science and public affairs, Band 14, S. 217-219
ISSN: 0096-3402, 0096-5243, 0742-3829
In: Bulletin of the atomic scientists, Band 14, Heft 6, S. 217-219
ISSN: 1938-3282
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 189-189
ISSN: 1467-8497
In: College Outline Series 22
In: American political science review, Band 52, Heft 4
ISSN: 0003-0554
In: American political science review, Band 52, Heft 4, S. 1026-1029
ISSN: 0003-0554
What is objectionable in the `new look' in pol'al sci is not quantification as such, but false quantification. From the objective voting behavior of Supreme Court justices,. Schubert & Kort (See SA 4978) have drawn certain uniformities & posited mathematic principles enabling prediction of future action of the Court. This is to confuse the sci'st with the bookmaker, trying to predict behavior of individual units. Moreover, using content analysis to set up a scale of mathematical determinants is here a petitio principii as in the first place it should be proved that judges think in that way. Until behaviorists concern themselves with this level of analysis, their labors remain marginal to the essence of the discipline. IPSA.
In: American political science review, Band 52, Heft 4, S. 1026-1029
ISSN: 1537-5943
I want to dissent initially from the rather constricting frame of reference that Schubert has established in his paper. He has every right in the world to set rhetorical snares, but I have no intention of walking into them. If I may summarize, Schubert asserts that he is a spokesman for a radical new direction in the study of public law, claiming that the old ways are moribund. He further urges that we should look with envy at the creative function of the social psychologists who supplied the Supreme Court with the banners it carried in Brown v. Board of Education while we were bumbling around with historical and philosophical trivia. He concludes that instead of wasting our time with talmudic disputations on whether the Supreme Court reached the "right" or the "wrong" decisions in specific cases, we should settle down to build a firm "scientific" foundation for our discipline.Not the least amusing aspect of this indictment is that I find myself billed as the defender of the ancien régime, as the de Maistre of public law. Therefore, for the benetfit of the young and impressionistic, let me break loose from Schubert's rhetorical trap: I too think that much of the research done in public law—and, for that matter, in political science generally—has been trivial.
In: American political science review, Band 45, Heft 4, S. 1081-1085
ISSN: 1537-5943
The dominant belief among both teachers and graduate students of political science seems to be that political theory constitutes the heart of their subject; yet political theory is not, in practice, the core of political science teaching. Such is the schizoid condition of political science and political scientists that is revealed by the investigations of the Committee for the Advancement of Teaching of the American Political Science Association. The hypothesis advanced in this note presents a dual reason for the unfortunate situation: it is partly that political theorists have failed to keep up with the times and have not engaged in sufficient value-free theoretical study of the raw data of politics, and partly that vast numbers of political scientists have falsely concluded that one of the most important parts of the traditional study of political theory—political ethics—is not susceptible of scientific treatment and should rigorously be eschewed.