01731cam a2200337Ia 4500084001500000084001400015001001300029003000600042005001700048008004100065010001700106020001500123020001800138035001800156040009000174050001400264082001200278100002900290245007000319260005900389300002500448504006600473505020700539505017200746505027500918505005801193650003601251650003001287650003401317650004201351 a89.062bcl a3,62ssgnocm00497060 OCoLC20151023231907.0721116s1960 cau b 001 0 eng c a 60011836  a0804700427 a9780804700429 a(OCoLC)497060 aWSUbengcWSUdOCLdNLGGCdUX0dOCLCGdAU@dDEBBGdLMLdOG#dTULIBdGBVCPdOCLCFdSAC00aJA73b.V3 4a320.0181 aVan Dyke, Vernon,d1912-10aPolitical science :ba philosophical analysis /cVernon Van Dyke. aStanford, Calif. :bStanford University Press,cc1960. axv, 235 p. ;c23 cm. aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [209]-228) and index.0 aPart I: Purposes in the study of politics. Introduction -- Questions of fact and value : the "is" and the "ought," means and ends -- Selecting and ordering descriptive data -- Explanation -- Prediction.8 aPart II: The expression of knowledge : forms and processes. Facts -- Concepts -- Classification, generalization, hypotheses, rules, and principles -- Laws -- Theories.8 aPart III: Approaches in the study of politics. Academic disciplines as approaches -- Approaches identified with salient features of political life -- Behavioral and analogical approaches -- Approaches identified with explanatory hypotheses or causal theories -- Methods.8 aPart IV: Science? The study of politics : a science? 0aPolitical sciencexMethodology.17aPolitieke filosofie.2gtt07aPolitische Wissenschaft.2swd 7aPolitical sciencexMethodology.2fast