Political Science in the International Field
@article{Potter1923PoliticalSI, title={Political Science in the International Field}, author={Pitman B. Potter}, journal={American Political Science Review}, year={1923}, volume={17}, pages={381 - 391} }
Political science, like all other branches of social science, has, in the past century, become increasingly inductive in method. Attempts to deduce conclusions regarding the details of political organization and practice by speculative thought concerning the nature of man, of liberty, of authority, of society, and so on, have now largely ceased. In their place we have efforts to collect as much data as possible concerning actual forms of state organization and governmental methods, and efforts…
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