Overview
here is the reading The reading:
1) Chapter 4 Political Science As Social Science by David Huber
2) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn pages 22-136
3) Chapter 1 “Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programs” by Imre Lakatos available here: https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/pmo/eng/Lakatos...
4) “Can the Biomedical Research Cycle be a Model for Political Science?” By Evan S. Lieberman Perspectives on Politics (ARES)
5) “A skin, not a sweater: Ontology and Epistemology in Political Science” David Marsh and Paul Furlong from Theories and Methods in Political Science (ARES)
6) Yanow and Schwartz-Shea Chapter 4: “Neither Rigorous Nor Objective? Interrogating Criteria for Knowledge Claims in Interpretive Science” by Dvora Yanow (ARES)
7) “How Not to Be Lakatos Intolerant: Appraising Progress in IR Research” by Colin Elman and Miriam Fendius Elman available here https://www.jstor.org/stable/3096070