A Model Discipline: Political Science and the Logic of Representations

by Kevin A. Clarke, David M. Primo, David Primo

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019538220X
• ISBN13: 9780195382204
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"