James Skillen: "The Necessity of a Non-Reductionist Science of Politics" (2008 July 14)
This paper tries to expose the weakness of the typically reductionist approaches to political science and outlines an approach that both rejects model reductionism and identifies the object of political science as the norm-responsive institutional community that is constituted by government and citizens (or subjects). Political science, therefore, must be an entity science that entails multi-modal, normative analysis with full self-consciousness of its philosophical and religiously deep assumptions.
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