10. Making Intuition Matter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction Reframing the Debate 1
5. Part I The Flyvbjerg Debate
6. 1. Return to Politics: Perestroika, Phronesis, and Post-Paradigmatic Political Science 15
7. 2. The Perestroikan Challenge to Social Science 33
8. 3. A Perestroikan Straw Man Answers Back: 56 David Laitin and Phronetic Political Science 56
9. 4. A Statistician Strikes Out: In Defense of 86 Genuine Methodological Diversity 86
10. 5. Reflections on Doing Phronetic Social Science: 98 A Case Study 98
11. Part II Phronesis Reconsidered
12. 6. Social Science in Society 115
13. 7. Power and Interpretation 134
14. 8. Contesting the Terrain: Flyvbjerg on Facts, Value, 152 Knowledge, and Power 152
15. 9. The Bounds of Rationality 171
16. 10. Making Intuition Matter 188
17. Part III Making Political Science Matter
18. 11. Conundrums in the Practice of Pluralism 207
19. 12. Unearthing the Roots of Hard Science: A Program for Graduate Students 222
20. 13. Political Science and Political Theory: The Heart of the Matter 234
21. 14. Finding New Mainstreams: Perestroika, Phronesis, and Political Science in the United States 252
22. References 269
23. About the Contributors 293
24. Index 297