nie tylko o politologii

According to many observers, some twenty-plus years of behavioral research had failed to establish any law of political behavior, apart from rather trivial or tautological generalizations. The discipline of political science was seen as plagued by misfits between theoretical understanding and available data, by a lack of experimental control of its research subjects and a lack of replication of existing results. A scientific forum in the Popperian sense did not really exist among political scientists, the absence of which led to inconclusive scientific debates and closed citation and review circles, nowhere approaching the ideal of falsification.

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Considered in itself, theoretical diversity is not necessarily detrimental to scientific progress. Insight in complex research problems may often be gained from an analysis from different points of view, each perspective contributing a piece of the puzzle. Progress is hindered, however, when theoretical diversity begins to impede communication between scientists working in the same field, or when a tendency develops to recycle old concepts under new names without appropriate knowledge of and reference to the older literature.

[Max Visser, Five theories of voting action, praca doktorska]