Ontology, methodology, and causation in the American school of international political economy
@article{Farrell2009OntologyMA, title={Ontology, methodology, and causation in the American school of international political economy}, author={Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore}, journal={Review of International Political Economy}, year={2009}, volume={16}, pages={58 - 71} }
ABSTRACT This paper explores disjunctures between ontology and methodology in the American school to better understand both the limits of this approach and ways we can counter its blind spots. Tierney and Maliniak's TRIP data point to a strong elective affinity between, on the one hand, rationalist/liberal ontological assumptions and quantitative methodologies, and on the other, constructivist assumptions and qualitative methodologies. This affinity is neither natural nor obvious, as is…
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