اتجاهات البحث في علم السياسة : دراسة نقدية للاسس المعرفية للتحليل السياسي

Abstract

Abstract This study titled "The Research Methods in Political Science a Critical Study For Epistemological Basis For Political Analysis". It comprises an introduction, five chapters and a conclusion. The study lunched from the hypothesis connected witl1 the epistemological basis for research methods and paradigms for the political analysis. The study tackled the basic concepts as science, objectivism, bias, theory, political theory and research method concepts. Also the study dealt with many reach methods: philosophers contributions’ since the Greek era till the contemporary methodological changes, which witnessed levels of rupture and epistemological continuity in the traditional methodologies. The study showed that the political science had passed a series of historical stages. Every stage differed in methodologies and hypothesis about what is the best approach for analysis of the political phenomenon. The schools of the political thought which emerged during a historical stage had produced alterative concepts and visions about the question about political ontology. r The study showed that politics as a behavior, practice and symbols, was a joint human traditional heritage between different civilizations and cultures. But politics as a knowledgical field, it is a modern science that surpassed the classic philosophical values and based on the philosophical and epistemic principles for positivism, which is represented in the surpassing of the quality values and I10fI'1'1S in research and adherence to the sense as a source of knowledge and application of the natural science paradigm in political science on the basis of the scientific method unity and separation between the values and facts. Behavioral method as a positive paradigm in political science was established in U.S.A. as a scientific revolution in political science human activity as a unit for analysis instead of the state and political institutions, and the use of the statistical methods in the analysis. But it faced many methodological crises which paved the way to the emergence of new methods and retumed back the relationship between the values, science and the full consideration of the qualitative and nomtative dimensions in political analysis.