Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Part I. Rationality and Progress in Political Inquiry 1. Is There Progress in Political Science? Terence Ball 2. Resituating Explanation James Farr 3. Rational Choice Theories Russell Hardin Part II. Interpretation and Critique 4. Deadly Hermeneutics; or, Sinn and the Social Scientist Terence Ball 5. Toward a Critical Political Science Stephen K. White 6. Interpretation, Genealogy, and Human Agency Michael T. Gibbons Part III. Beyond Empiricism and Hermeneutics 7. Political Inquiry: Beyond Empiricism and Hermeneutics Fred Dallmayr 8. After Empiricism: The Realist Alternative Jeffrey C. Isaac Part IV. Political Science and Political Discourse 9. Male-Ordered Politics: Feminism and Political Science Kathy E. Ferguson 10. Political Science and Political Choice: Opacity, Freedom, and Knowledge J. Donald Moon Contributors Index

About the Author

Terence Ball is Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Civil Disobedience and Civil Deviance, editor of Political Theory and Praxis, and co-editor of After Marx.

Reviews

"The essays engage in a conversation with one another, weaving ideas, perspectives, and arguments taken up earlier with those addressed later-not in chorus anvil fashion, but in the form of a dialogue among philosophically sophisticated scholars adopting sometimes complementary, sometimes divergent, readings of overlapping concerns and ideas." - Ernest J. Yanarella