Paula Vogel

Mansbridge, Joanna

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“…57 Biography's capacity to explain and interpret issues of political consequence may even allow it to answer the question, "What Is Political Science For?" 58 Since biography can offer a coherent account of the personal, institutional, and societal factors central to politics and to the institutions of government, the life narrative of an important political figure could help policymakers, other public officials, and members of the public better understand the issues and features of politics and government and thereby possibly help them address those issues (or those of another representative democracy). The promise of biography is that it can help political societies govern themselves and, if need be, reform their politics and government.…”

Section: What Biography Offers Political Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

On Political Theory, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences

Dienstag¹

2016

Perspect. polit.

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Sometimes political theorists like to imagine that they are lonely humanists misplaced in social science departments. In fact, political theory was created as part of a political science composed of both humanistic and social-scientific elements. Rather than trying to locate political theory somewhere between the humanities and the social sciences, we should instead dismantle the boundary between the two and create a unified discipline of questioning that embraces both kinds of inquiry.

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Section: What Biography Offers Political Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%