The Scientific Status of Political Science

Claude Ake

British Journal of Political Science, 1972, vol. 2, issue 1, 109-115

Abstract: I want to clarify the scientific status of contemporary political science. To do this, it is necessary to go into the question of what science means. I take it for granted that the samiliar charcterization of science as explanation is cssentially correct. But what does explanation mean?

Date: 1972
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