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1 online resource (xii, 475 pages) |
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Routledge handbooks |
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Routledge handbooks.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; Part I: Introduction; 1. Interpretive political science: mapping the field ; Introduction; Interpretation and positivism; Theories; Methods; Empirical disciplines; Professional practices; Summary; Note; Bibliography; Part II: Theories; 2. Naturalism and anti-naturalism; Naturalism and anti-naturalism; Against naturalist concept formation; Varieties of anti-naturalism; Conclusion; Bibliography; 3. Idealist legacies; Idealism through analysis: Berlin and Hampshire |
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Charles Taylor: interpretation and the human sciencesBibliography; 4. Hermeneutics; I; II; III; IV; Notes; Bibliography; 5. Historicism; Introduction; R.G. Collingwood and the foundations of historicist interpretivism; Two routes from Collingwood in political studies; Tradition, agency, and power: the distinctness of historicist interpretivism; Historicist interpretivism and genealogy; Future directions; Notes; Bibliography; 6. Pragmatist interpretivism; Pragmatist interpretation as inference; Pragmatist interpretation as dialogue; Pragmatist interpretation as perspective |
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Symbolic action and the negotiated political orderFraming and sensemaking; Deliberative democracy and democratic experimentalism; Abduction and grounded theory; Conclusion; Bibliography; 7. Social constructivism; Constructivism as ontology; The socially constitutive nature of institutional facts; Constructivism as institutionalism: constructivist institutionalism; Conclusions; Note; Bibliography; 8. Cultural studies; From cultural studies to political studies (and back again); Cultural studies and the interpretation of Thatcherism; Ideas, ideologies, and cultural politics; Conclusion |
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How does quantitative analysis get its political power?Conclusion; Bibliography; 12. Ethnography; Introduction; Naturalist ethnography; Interpretive ethnography; The toolkit; Debates; Chugging ahead by developing the craft; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; 13. Textual analysis; Analysing texts; Politics, political discourse, and analysis of political texts; Approaches to political text and discourse analysis; Analysis and evaluation of argumentation in political discourse; Textual analysis as a necessary part of interpretive political analysis; Bibliography; 14. Historical methods |
| Summary |
Interpretive political science focuses on the meanings that shape actions and institutions, and the ways in which they do so. This Handbook explores the implications of interpretive theory for the study of politics. It provides the first definitive survey of the field edited by two of its pioneers. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, the Handbook's 32 chapters are split into five parts which explore:the contrast between interpretive theory and mainstream political science;the main forms of interpretive theory and the theoretical concepts associated with interp |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 10, 2015) |
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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Political science -- Research
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Political science -- Philosophy
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Political science -- Research
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Statsvetenskap -- teori, filosofi.
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Statsvetenskap -- forskning -- metodik.
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handbooks.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bevir, Mark, editor.
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Rhodes, R. A. W., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317533627 |
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1317533623 |
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9781315725314 |
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1315725312 |
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9781317533603 |
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1317533607 |
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9781317533610 |
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1317533615 |
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