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/ DOWDING, KEITH M.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. ISMS
3. WHAT IS AN EXPLANATION?
4. WHAT IS A THEORY?
5. HYPOTHESES AND THEORY TESTING
6. NARRATIVES, MECHANISMS AND CAUSATION
7. METHODS AND METHODOLOGIES
8. CONCEPTS AND CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS
9. ANALYTIC POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
10. POLITICAL SCIENCE AS A VOCATION
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
The Philosophy and
Methods of
Political Science
Keith Dowding
palgrave
(macmillan
I education
Contents
List of Illustrative Materials xii
Preface and Acknowledgements xiv
1 Introduction 1
2 Isms 9
2 1 Introduction 9
2 2 Realism and anti-realism 10
2 3 Nominalism, idealism 14
2 4 Empiricism and positivism 15
2 5 Instrumentalism, conventionalism, pragmatism 18
2 6 Essentialism, objectivism 19
2 7 Critical theory 21
2 8 Postmodernism 22
2 9 Interpretivism 23
2 10 Critical realism 24
2 11 Naturalism 26
2 12 Constructivism 27
2 13 Realism and relativism in ethics 30
2 14 A few isms not in Figure 2 1 32
3 What Is an Explanation? 36
3 1 Introduction 36
3 2 Language and the world 37
3 3 The attempt to produce a model of explanation 45
3 4 Proximate and ultimate; type and token 50
3 5 Description, causation and understanding 55
3 6 Generalizations, laws and mechanisms 60
3 7 Conclusion 67
4 What Is a Theory? 68
4 1 Introduction 68
4 2 Organizing perspectives 72
4 3 Explanatory theories or models 79
4 4 Explanatory theory: non-formal models 88
IX
x Contents
4 5 Mechanisms and constraints 94
4 6 Cumulative and non-cumulative research 98
4 7 Conclusion 100
5 Hypotheses and Theory Testing 102
5 1 Introduction 102
5 2 How evidence bears on theories: preliminaries 106
5 3 Confirmation, induction and theory 107
5 4 Hempel’s paradox and Popper’s falsifiability 116
5 5 Concepts are theory-laden 128
5 6 Conclusion 130
6 Narratives, Mechanisms and Causation 133
6 1 Introduction 133
6 2 Causation as narrative 134
6 3 Dichotomies in causal accounts 138
6 4 Case studies and causation: process tracing 151
6 5 Conclusion 157
7 Methods and Methodologies 160
7 1 Introduction 160
7 2 Qualitative and quantitative research 163
7 3 Data access and research transparency 166
7 4 Policy-oriented research 169
7 5 Different methods: institutional-structural 170
7 6 Different methods: behavioural 174
7 7 Different methods: interpretative 181
7 8 Conclusion 188
8 Concepts and Conceptual Analysis 189
8 1 Introduction 189
8 2 Principles of conceptual analysis 191
8 3 The existence of concepts 201
8 4 Natural kinds 203
8 5 Measurement 206
8 6 Some principles of classification 208
8 7 Contests and contestability of concepts 212
9 Analytic Political Philosophy 213
9 1 Introduction 213
9 2 Interpreting the work of dead people 216
9 3 Moral problems and grand theory 223
Contents xi
9 4 Conceptual analysis, thought experiments
and intuition pumps 224
9 5 Conclusion 240
10 Political Science as a Vocation 243
10 1 Political science 243
10 2 Belief and opinion 244
10 3 Surface and structure 245
10 4 The profession 250
References 253
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