Making Political Science Matter Debating Knowledge, Research, and Method
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Sanford F. Schram teaches social theory and social policy in the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College where he also teaches research methods for undergraduate political science majors. He is the author of several books including Words of Welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty which won the Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association and Welfare Discipline: Discourse, Governance, and Globalization. Brian Caterino is an independent scholar and has taught at the University of Rochester, the New School, and the State University of New York, Brockport. He lives in Rochester, New York.Devotees of the perestroika movement will find many of the chapters reinforce their views of the field. . . . Recommended.
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A bold call to rethink political science. The authors imagine a discipline that challenges power, challenges society, and challenges the ways we think. <b>Making Political Science Matter</b> is a wise, erudite, broad-ranging, sometimes witty gauntlet tossed before contemporary scholarship. It is more than a book, it is a movement.
- James A. Morone,author of Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History,
A significant and thoughtful discussion of key issues in the philosophy of social science, one designed to encourage a richer variety of methodological work in political science.
- Kristen Renwick Monroe,editor of Perestroika! The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science,
This edited collection offers and up-to-date and very readable discussion of knowledge, research, and method in the political sciences and social studies more generally, suitable for academics and doctoral students alike.
- Thomas Ahrens,University of Warwick,
This well-written and accessible collection will be an invaluable resource for students and academics in social sciences in general.
Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography
Articulates and debates the idea that academic work should be primarily concerned with addressing the largest and most immediate challenges faced by societies.
Urban Studies