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THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS AND THE POLITICS OF SCIENCE

THE SCIENCE OF

Introduction The very idea of an Encyclopedia of Government and Politics raises important questions about the relationship between knowledge and politics. Although the concept originates from the Greek egkuklios paideia or general education, the notion of an encyclopedia in contemporary parlance invokes a far more ambitious and dangerous project. The …

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How to Become a Political Scientist – Career Girls – Explore Careers

How to Become a Political Scientist - Career Girls - Explore Careers

Introduction The pluralist conception of politics incorporates a number of modernist assumptions about the appropriate relation of the individual to the state. Pervaded by scepticism concerning the power of human reason to operate in the realm of values and the concomitant subjectivist assumption that, in the absence of absolute values, …

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