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Utilization
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Sources for Political Inquiry Library Reference Materials
and Manuscripts as Data for Political Science
Clement E. Vose, Wesleyan University
Errors and Oddities in Reference Materialsand Indexes to Books and Periodicals
Encyclopedias, Yearbooks, Directories, and Handbooks
Documents by and about the United States Government
Chapter 2 Sources for Political Inquiry Quantitative Data
Jerome M. Clubb, University of Michigan
Social Science Data Archives
Operation and of Data Archives
DevelopmentData Sources
Concluding Commen
List of Social Science Data Archives and Related Facilities
Chapter Case Study and Theory in Political Science
Eckstein, Princeton University
Introduction
DefinitionsOptions on the Utility of Case Studies:
An Overview the Argument
Types and Uses of Case Study
Objections to the Argument (and Replies to the
Conclusion
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AND THEORY
IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
'ARRY ECKSTEIN
ZNTRODUCTZON
extent to which certain kinds of study are carried out in the field
cal science seems to be a poor indicator their perceived utility for buildingtheories.
The type of study most frequently made in the field is the intensive study
individual cases. Case studies run the gamut the most microscosmic to
the most macrocosmic levels of political phenomena. On the microlevel, we
inany studies of conspicuous political personalities (political leaders such
as Lincoln, Stalin, Gandhi), and of particular leadership positions and small
groups (the American presidency, the British Cabinet, the prime
minister in British government, tlie operational of the Soviet leadership,
and so on). At the political groupings, the literature the field teemsstudies of particular pressure groups, political party systems,
lutionary and movements, and political "elites," both on the national
and local levels. More abundant are studies individual in
corners the world and at many stages Iiistory and development. Many
treat as overall macrocosms; many with their subsidiary or-
ganizations (administrative apparatuses, legislatures, judiciaries, systems olocal
government), or their programs and policies, or their particular electoral,
legislative, executive, or judicial decision processes. Beyond that level, one finds
a similar profusion of case studies of transnational plienomena: specific
esses of and organizations transnational integration, particular "systems"
international politics, particular in international relations, and the like.
The of examples is such tliat it seems pointless to
li h P i l tli i liti l i ti t
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