Lexington Books
Pages: 334
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Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-4985-5668-2 • Hardback • July 2017 • $136.00 • (£105.00)
978-1-4985-5669-9 • eBook • July 2017 • $129.00 • (£99.00)
Michael Haas, who taught political science at the University of Hawai‘i for 35 years, now lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches at local colleges and universities.
1Political Science: A Contested History
2Subfields of Political Science
3Traditional Paradigms
4Behavioral Paradigms
5Postbehavioral Paradigms
6Contemporary Paradigms
7Multimethological Political Science
8Cross-Testing Paradigms
9Neobehavioral Political Science
Haas boldly advances an intriguing way for more synthesis among the various subfields and paradigms of political science. As a valuable bonus he provides an instructive review of the fractures that have beset our discipline.
— Charles F. Hermann, Texas A&M University
Michael Haas' Political Science Revitalized: Filling the Jigsaw Puzzle With Metatheory is an extraordinary accomplishment from a highly original and knowledgeable thinker. It is the culmination of a professional life of creative contributions to the theory and practice of political science. It is most welcome. Few academicians in the discipline could attempt such an undertaking and fewer even complete it. The scholarship is incisive, well integrated and impressively critiqued and varies from, among other issues, the traditional and institutional to a neoliberal political science, with a number of stops along the way. This book should be required reading for everyone, academicians, students, and an informed public, who are concerned with the discipline and its relationship to a vital democratic society.
— William Crotty, Northeastern University