Vim and vigour lies not in microspecialization but in engaging with the bigger
debates in comparative politics and political science. Even that ossiWed variant of
formal-legalism known as the Westminster approach can be reinvented by
engaging with the interpretive turn; by analysing the written constitutional
documents and their associated beliefs and practices; and by drawing on history
and philosophy—the founding constituent disciplines of political science—to
explore the historical evolution of political institutions.
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