[PDF.60hh] A Model Discipline: Political Science and the Logic of Representations

A Model Discipline: Political Science and the Logic of Representations

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 | #803632 in Books |  2012-01-20 |  2012-01-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.10 x.70 x9.10l,.77 | File type: PDF | 232 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A Much-Needed Guide for Political Scientists|By Philip Wallach|I wish I had read this book while I was receiving my graduate training in formal methods. Clarke and Primo tackle head-on a number of thorny philosophy-of-science questions that are usually ignored by political scientists and persuasively argue that the community of political scientists has committed itself to an u| ||"This is an outstanding book that should be read, thought about, and discussed by every political scientist. Professors Clarke and Primo provide a clear discussion of what models are, a persuasive critique of current practice in the discipline, and solid guid

In A Model Discipline, Kevin A. Clarke and David M. Primo turn a critical eye to the methodological approach that dominates modern political science. Clarke and Primo contend that the field's emphasis on model testing has led to a distortion of both the modeling process and the art of data analysis and cannot be logically justified. The authors argue that models should be seen as "objects" and thus regarded as neither true nor false. Models should instead be evaluated f...

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