Contemporary

Empirical
Political Theory

EDITED BY

Kristen Renwick Monroe

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Berkeley Los Angeles London
 CONTENTS

Introduction: Empirical Political Theory

Kristen Renwick Monroe / i

PART I. HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

1. The Future of the Postbehavioral Phase in Political Science
David Easton / 13

2. Paradoxos Theoretikos
John G. Cxmne.il / 47

PART II. ALTERNATIVE VIEWS OF T H E DISCIPLINE

3. Seven Durable Axes of Cleavage in Political, Science
Bernard Grofman / 73

4. Political Science: Drunken Walk or Functional Evolution?

J. A. Laponce / 8y

5. Veiled Uses of Empirical Political Theories

Murray Edelman / 100

PART III. CONSTRUCTION OF A GENERAL AND

VALUE-FREE SCIENCE OF POLITICS
6. Oedipean Complexities and Political Science:
Tragedy and the Search for Knowledge
J. Peler Euben / 115

7. Empirical Theory 1997: Who's Kissing Him—or Her—Now?

Catherine Zuckert and Michael Zuckert / r^j
8. The Misunderstood Promise of Realist Social Theory
Alexander Wendt and Ian Shapiro / 166
PART IV. CONTRIBUTIONS OF RECENT THEORIES
g. The Ferment of the 1950s and the
Development of Rational Choice Theory
William H. Riker / 191
10. Theory on the Prowl
Russell Hardin / 202.

11. The Political System and Comparative Politics:

The Contribution of David Easton
Gabriel A. Almond / 2ig

12. How Feminist Scholarship Could Change Political Science

Nancy C. M. Hartsock / 231
13. Political Theory and Public Policy:
Marx, Weber, and a Republican Theory of the State
Theodore J. Lowi and Edward J. Harpham / 249

14. Human Nature, Identity, and the

Search for a General Theory of Politics
Kristen Renwick Monroe / 279

CONTRIBUTORS / 307

INDEX / 323