Southeast Asia in Political Science: Terms of Enlistment
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چکیده
Pluralism without updating is not science. . . . It would be a warping of the scientifi c frame if we built into the charter of any department of political science that there had to be an expert in “realism,” or in “South Asia,” or in “democracy,” or in “qualitative methods.” . . . [ I ]nstitutionalizing slots for particular specialties is a threat to scientifi c progress. . . . A pluralism that shelters defunct practitioners cannot be scientifi cally justifi ed. d a v i d l a i t i n (2003)
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