Includes bibliographical references (p. [567]-576) and index.
Contents:
PART 6. ASSESSMENT -- Reforming the discipline: some doubts / Peter J. Steinberger. Robert Jervis -- Perestroika and its other / Susanne Hoeber Rudolph -- Not here, not now! The absence of a European Perestroika movement / Catarina Kinnvall -- Every poet his own Aristotle / Theodore J. Lowi -- Letter to a graduate student / Samuel H. Beer -- PART 2. METHODOLOGICAL CONCERNS -- Problems, methods, and theories in the study of politics or, What's wrong with political science and what to do about it / Ian Shapiro -- Rational choice, symbolic politics, and pluralism in the study of violent conflict / Stuart J. Kaufman -- A return to politics: Perestroika, phronesis, and postparadigmatic politica science / Sanford F. Schram -- The Perestroikan challenge to social science / David D. Laitin -- Interpretation and institution: rational choice and the problem of social action / Brain Caterino -- The "R" word, narrative, and Perestroika: a critique of language and method / Cecelia Lynch -- Work that counts / Elizabeth Sanders -- Lost in translation: the challenges of state-generated data in developing countries / Kamal Sadiq -- In the house of "science," there are many rooms: Perestroika and the "science studies" turn / Dvora Yanow -- Will the real Perestroikniks please stand up? Race and methodological reform in the study of politics / Dorian T. Warren -- Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend: arguments for pluralism and against monopoly in political science / Lloyd I. Rudolph -- PART 3. GOVERNANCE -- The case against mandatory competition for APSA offices / Gary C. Jacobson -- Democracy versus diversity - a false dichotomy: a critique of the Jacobson committee report / Marsha Pripstein Posusney -- Governance: minutes from a public meeting / Kristen Renwick Monroe -- Ironic representation / Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott -- Introducing democracy in the APSA: the case for member sovereignty and constituency representation / Lloyd I. Rudolph -- Confessions of a confused democrat: some thoughts on representation and governance in the APSA / Martha Ackelsberg -- PART 4: THE JOURNALS -- The emperor had no clothes: the politics of taking back the APSR / Sven Steinmo -- Methodological bias in the APSR / David Pion-Berlin, Dan Cleary -- The APSR in the Perestroika era / Lee Sigelman -- Inventing Perspectives on politics / Jennifer Hochschild -- Methodological bias in the American Journal of Political Science / Gregory J. Kasza -- Science, political science, and the American Journal of Political Science / Kim Quaile Hill, Jan E. Leighley -- PART 5: GRADUATE EDUCATION -- 2004 report to the council / APSA Task Force on Graduate Education -- The graduate student experience: "hegemony" or balance in methodological training? / Peregrine Schwartz-Shea -- Graduate education in a pluralist context: the metaphor of a toolbox / Leslie E. Anderson -- Quantitative methods: reflections on the files of recent job applicants / Gregory J. Kasza -- On curricular Perestroika: seven principles of methodological pluralism / Hayward R. Alker -- PART 6. ASSESSMENT -- Caught between confused critics and careerist co-conspirators: Perestroika in American political science / Timothy W. Luke -- After methodology: toward a profession of political science / Maurice J. Meilleur -- A pox on Perestroika, a hex on hegemony: toward a critical political science / John S. Dryzek -- Of means and meaning: the challenges of doing good political science / Rogers M. Smith -- Perestroika, politics, and the profession: targets and tolerance / Robert Jervis -- Reforming the discipline: some doubts / Peter J. Steinberger.
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