A Discipline Divided: Schools and Sects in Political Science / Edition 1 in Bloomington, MN

A Discipline Divided is a collection of coherent and timely articles that discuss the emergence and divergence of the two dominant camps of political science: ideology and methodology. Almond examines the ‘hard' versus ‘soft' science argument, the history of model fitting in communism studies, the strengths and weaknesses of the rational choice movement and the historical forces and processes that have shaped political culture.