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100			_aRoseman, Cyril
245		0	_aDimensions of political analysis: an introduction to the contemporary study of politics
260			_aNew Jersey
260			_bPrentice Hall
260			_c1966
300			_a368p.
520			_aBeginning students of political science rarely, if ever, have been given the opportunity to acquire first-hand familiarity with the orientation and methods of prominent twentieth-century studies in political science. This book of readings is designed to reflect, as accurately as possible in one intro- ductory volume, the diversity and vitality of modern political science by delineating the major concerns of political science, the methods by which political phenomena are studied, the central concepts of the discipline, and some of the major questions which confront professional students of govern- ment and politics. Naturally such an enterprise has demanded reappraisal and successive modification of the organizational structure of the volume. The framework ultimately employed has provided the editors with a useful device for presenting introductory students with a coherent overview of the discipline without preconceived, doctrinaire conceptions of what political science ought to be. In selecting the readings the editors tried, wherever possible, to meet each of the following criteria: that the selections be written in language that the beginning student can understand; that the selections be drawn from a variety of subfields of political science; that the selections illustrate the con- cepts operationally employed (where conceptualization is not self-conscious they should illustrate the ideas implicitly at work); and that the selections provide a tenable combination of commonly accepted perspectives, widely acclaimed selections, less orthodox foci, and imaginative, lesser-known ma- terials. The selections have been ordered in part by the complexity of excerpted materials, in part by the relationship of the concepts illustrated, and in part in terms of the gradual development of the volume from simple ideas at the outset to more sophisticated,
650			_aPolitical Science
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