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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2004

Henry E. Brady
Henry E. Brady
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Henry E. Brady is the Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, and Director of the Survey Research Center and UC DATA at the University of California, Berkeley (hbrady@csm.berkeley.edu)
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“Two Paths to a Science of Politics” presents two strongly argued points of view about where we should be going in our discipline. The authors by and large agree on the nature of science and the variety of ways to do it, but they disagree on the most fruitful way to proceed at this moment. Granato and Scioli believe that we need to do more to test theories with data and to formulate theories that are based on data. We need, in their phrase, to consider the empirical implications of theoretical models (EITM). Rogers Smith thinks we need to take history, context, and meaning more seriously in order to understand phenomena such as political identity.Henry E. Brady's co-edited book with David Collier, Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, will be published this year from Rowman and Littlefield and Berkeley Public Policy Press. His thanks to David Collier, Gary King, Paul Sniderman, and the editorial staff of Perspectives on Politics for their helpful comments.

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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , June 2004 , pp. 295 - 300
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© 2004 American Political Science Association

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