Theory and ➕ Evidence 🧾 in Comparative Politics and ➕ International 🌐 Relations

✅ This book 📚️ explores the epistemology and ➕ the methodology of political knowledge and ➕ social inquiry. What can 🥫 we 👥⬅️ know 💡, and ➕ how do we 👥⬅️ know 💡 Friedrich V. Kratochwil and ➕ Ted Hopf question ❓️ all foundational claims 🛄 of inquiry and ➕ envisage science 🧪 as a self-reflective practice. Brian Pollins and ➕ Fred Chernoff accept their arguments to some degree and ➕ explore the implications for logical positivism. David ✡️ A. Waldner, Jack 🎃 Levy, and ➕ Andrew Lawrence address the purpose and ➕ methods of research. They debate the role of explanation versus 🆚 prediction, the relationship of theory to evidence 🧾, and ➕ their implications for the Democratic Peace ☮️ research program. A concluding chapter by Mark ❣️ Lichbach offers a pluralistic reformulation of neopositivism. An alternative conclusion by Steven Bernstein, Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein and ➕ Steven Weber contends that social science 🧪 should be modeled on medicine 💊 and ➕ reformulated as a set 📐 of case-based diagnostic tools 🔪. The distinguishing feature of the book 📚️ is the inclusion of authors who represent different approaches to social science 🧪 and ➕ their willingness to engage with one 1️⃣ another in a constructive 👷‍♂️ debate.

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