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020 _a9780199932399 (ebook) :
_cNo price
040 _aStDuBDS
_beng
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_dBD-SySUS
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050 0 _aJA71
_b.C528 2012
082 0 4 _a320
_223
100 1 _aClarke, Kevin A.
245 1 2 _aA model discipline
_h[electronic resource] :
_bpolitical science and the logic of representations /
_cKevin A. Clarke and David M. Primo.
260 _aOxford :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2012.
300 _a1 online resource :
_bill., maps.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 _aPolitical scientists use models to investigate and illuminate causal mechanisms, generate comparative data, and more. But how do we justify and rationalize the method? Why test predictions from a deductive, and thus truth-preserving, system? Primo and Clarke tackle these central questions in this novel work of methodology.
588 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 19, 2012).
650 0 _aPolitical science
_xMethodology.
700 1 _aPrimo, David M.
776 0 8 _iPrint version
_z9780195382198
856 4 0 _3Oxford scholarship online
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195382198.001.0001
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c40892
_d40892