Understanding Politics: Theory, Procedures, Narratives

ISBN-13: 9783631671719 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 193 str.

Tadeusz Klementewicz

Opis

This book analyses how contemporary political science can develop as a structure of knowledge gathered by the individual sub-disciplines of political studies, as well as the remaining disciplines of social sciences. This work presents a strategy of integrating knowledge about man and society.

Spis treści

Political Science as Multi-Paradigm Structure of Knowledge - Methodological Particularities of Political Science's Analysis - Understanding Politics - Humanistic Interpretation, Causal Explanation and Integral Explanation - The Procedure of Evaluating Politics and Politicians - Practical and prognostic functions of political science - Political Theory as the Heuristic Structure of Research - Theory of International Relations in the System of Sciences on Politics - Construing Narratives in Political Science.

O autorze

Tadeusz Klementewicz is Professor at the Institute of Political Sciences of the University of Warsaw. He specialises in the methodology of social sciences, the theory of politics and global studies.