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Economics and Politics: Towards a Dialogue between Economics and Political Science

✍ Scribed by Hanspeter Kriesi

Publisher: Swiss Political Science Association
Year: 2005
Tongue: German
Weight: 183 KB
Volume: 11
Category: Article
ISSN: 1420-3529
DOI: 10.1002/j.1662-6370.2005.tb00378.x

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✦ Synopsis

In this essay, I present a sceptical point of view with regard to the introduction of the economists' models in political science. Based on examples drawn from the field of political behavior and public opinion research, I discuss the lack of realism and the limitation of the theoretical scope of the models the political scientists are expected to import. My discussion has no pretension of being original. By spelling out the unattractive implications of the narrow assumptions of the economists' theory of action for a political scientist working empirically, it rather attempts to contribute to the clarification of some of the impediments to an improved dialogue between the practitioners of the two disciplines which have long been divided by the theoretical approach of neoclassical economics.

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