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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. It helps to get a fuller understanding of political phenomena and to reconstruct the process of emergence of the global civilisation. The author reflects about the current state of research conducted by political scientists. The research is conducted within a few major research paradigms. This work presents a strategy of integrating knowledge about man and society.
List of contents
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.
About the author
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.
