Political Science and East Asian Area Studies
Keyword(s):
Political science “area studies,” or what the American Political Science Association calls “foreign and comparative government and politics” in order to insure that they not be confused with the biggest area study of them all, United States government and politics, have always posed difficulties for the Emily Posts of the discipline. Not a year goes by without a guardian of die methodological flame writing an article bemoaning the “ameoretical” quality of area studies or issuing a warning mat “The immersion in local materials may cast the researcher adrift far from any theoretical shore.”
2000 ◽
Vol 61
(4)
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pp. 313-323
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1979 ◽
Vol 12
(02)
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pp. 202-209
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2005 ◽
Vol 37
(4)
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pp. 587-612
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1974 ◽
Vol 7
(04)
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pp. 382-385
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