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Politics and the Problem about ‘Science'

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2009

Lincoln Allison
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There is a continuing concern about whether politics can be made a science, revived in this Journal by Ake [Claude Ake, ‘The Scientific Status of Political Science’, II (1972), 109–15], McLean and Postbrief [‘“The Scientific Status of Political Science” – Two Comments’, II (1972), by Iain McLean, 383–4, and Samuel Postbrief, 385–8]. The word in other languages does not appear to elicit the same arguments: in French, for example, the expression ‘science politique’ is far less problematical because the word ‘science’ lacks both the theoretical and emotive implications which belong to the English word ‘science’.

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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , April 1973 , pp. 250 - 252
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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