Concepts have always been foundational to the social science enterprise. This book is a guide to working with them. Against the positivist project of concept ""reconstruction""-the formulation of a technical, purportedly neutral vocabulary for measuring, comparing, and generaliz…
Concepts have always been foundational to the social science enterprise. This book is a guide to working with them. Against the positivist project of concept "reconstruction"--The formulation of a technical, purportedly neutral vocabulary for measuring, comparing, and generalizi…
Concepts have always been foundational to the social science enterprise. This book is a guide to working with them. Against the positivist project of concept ""reconstruction""--The formulation of a technical, purportedly neutral vocabulary for measuring, comparing, and generali…
"Frederic C. Schaffer challenges the assumption often made by American scholars that democracy has been achieved in foreign countries when criteria such as free elections are met. Elections, he argues, often have cultural underpinnings that are invisible to outsiders. To examine…