Customer Reviews

Get out the Highlighter pen! - By: , 27 Jul 2003
For students of politics at degree level, this book is gold! If, like me, a compulsory module has been forced upon you on political science, this is more than adequate to help you bump up those marks. For essays it's particularly good, as each approach, including Marxism, Feminism, Behaviouralsim, Rational Choice & Normative Theory, (to name a few) is covered by a different contributor. (Great for bulking out your bibliography!) As well as approaches, there are also chapters on quantitative & qualitative methods, as well as wider issues such as Ontology & Epistemology, & the role of structure & agancyin political science. It's quite hard-going at first; the first few chapters are saturated with considerations, however once you get into it the format is very easy to digest covering pros & cons of each approach. Allin all, worth buying; it was a compulsory text for my 2nd year module, & will be a good core text for any module on political science.