The Tragedy Of Political Science by David M. Ricci

Politics, Scholarship, and Democracy

This book argues that the professionalization and methodological narrowness of modern political science have distanced the discipline from the practical concerns of politics and democracy, privileging technical expertise, specialization, and empirical methods at the expense of normative judgment, historical perspective, and public engagement; it diagnoses this estrangement as a 'tragedy' for both scholarship and democratic life and calls for a broader, more pluralistic, and morally attentive political science that reconnects theory and empirical work with the civic questions and values central to politics.

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