"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[...]
Since the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States, religious fundamentalism has dominated public debate as never before. Policymakers, educators and the general public all want to know: Why do fundamentalist movements turn violent? Are fundamentalisms a global threat to human rights[...]
In this volume, Almond and Verba focus their origional text and 'subject its philosophy, its methodology, its national and comparative findings to searching critiques by appropriate scholars'.[...]