Abstracts
| Autor | Revista Andamios |
| Páginas | 377-382 |
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- Quo Vadimus Sartori? Political science and public policies within the framework of a controversy. Antonio Camou
SUMMARY. In October of 2004, Giovanni Sartori published a brief article, “Where is political science going?”, that generated a long controversy. In the notes that follow I am going to retake this dispute but moving the attention from the mainstream of political science to the studies of public policies. My purpose is to pay attention in one of the outstanding problems marked by Sartori: the weak connection between theory and practice. My main argument has two claims. On the one hand, I maintain that the critical analysis offered by professor Sartori is applied to some aspects of the studies of public policies, but not to others. On the other hand, I indicate that their critics and proposals are up to a certain point adapted, but also are little realistic, and to a certain extent they are insufficient, because he concentrates his reflection on the epistemological aspects of knowledge but he neglects the political- institutional aspects largely.
KEY WORDS: Political science, public policy, production of knowledge, decisión-making, expert knowledge.
- Debates and progresee in contemporary political science: The theory of interdependent decisions and the scientific study of politics. Godofredo Vidal de la Rosa
SUMMARY. Rational Choice Theory, or Theory of Interpersonal Decisions, has a particular importance in contemporary political sciences, which is growing as the theory evolves and involves new methods and perspectives. But very often this theory is ignored from south of the Río Grande. This essay underlines its dynamism and makes a call to assimilate it critically.
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KEY WORDS: Progress and programs of political and social sciences, rational choice theory and Interdependent decisions, social sciences and norms of political justice
- Contemporary political science: constriction of the science and annihilation of the political? Critical notes for political studies in Latin America. Martín Retamozo
SUMMARY. Giovanni Sartori’s essay “Where is Political Science Going?” has generated an important polemic. In this context, this article deals with theoretical and metodological aspects of contemporary political science, especially the discussion in the Latin-American field. This article argues that a restricted vision of the “science” and of the “politics” (forgetting the “political”) has led North American political...
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