The Nature of Political Theory

50 The Nature of Political Theory character development. It was also, by the early twentieth century, perceived to be an importa ...

We Have a Firm Foundation 51 in the twentieth century. The third view was largely a continuation of an earlier Idealist theme, b ...

52 The Nature of Political Theory the rubric of ‘political science’, this latter term will also be briefly clarified. Third, the ...

We Have a Firm Foundation 53 through the open use of reason, in order to perceive identifiable and verifiable causal patterns. T ...

54 The Nature of Political Theory suffered from the increasing emphasis on the segmentation of disciplinary areas in the early t ...

We Have a Firm Foundation 55 David Easton, for example, political science ‘has never been behaviouristic’ (Easton in Farr and Se ...

56 The Nature of Political Theory pragmatic adjustment, GNP, prices, wages, the public-sector borrowing requirement. All else wa ...

We Have a Firm Foundation 57 (Nagel 1961: 4). The basic contention was that scientific theories could grasp an objective reality ...

58 The Nature of Political Theory Weber raised the question: could there be any rational foundation for our basic values? For We ...

We Have a Firm Foundation 59 Science was viewed as a social instrument. Thus, normative and historical theory in this context, w ...

60 The Nature of Political Theory Contrary to the basic premises of behavioural theory, ideology, and normative theory did seem ...

We Have a Firm Foundation 61 For many exponents of empirical political theory, there are deep problems with such a view. For exa ...

62 The Nature of Political Theory Although there are a number of variants of rational choice theory (including Marxist rational ...

We Have a Firm Foundation 63 of its more rigorous critics still applaud its empirical and scientific aspirations as its most val ...

64 The Nature of Political Theory to be pessimistic about all government-led initiatives—simply because they are not generated t ...

We Have a Firm Foundation 65 offshoots such as rational choice) to absorb political theory,in toto, is not absent, but rather do ...

66 The Nature of Political Theory Primarily, political theory and ideology are reduced to the same category, although bothdenote ...

We Have a Firm Foundation 67 for behaviouralists, ‘endlessly reinterpreting the great books of dead men and tire- lessly disputi ...

68 The Nature of Political Theory that political and moral goods cannot be determined by abstract reasoning. All human ‘goods’ a ...

We Have a Firm Foundation 69 can therefore be seen as the study of the social world itself. The medium of language itself is emb ...