Political Analysis: An Annual Publication of the Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association, vol 5. (book reviews)

R. Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology

In the first review of the state of political methodology, Achen (Christopher H. Achen, "Towards Theories of Data: The State of Political Methodology." In Political Science: The State of the Discipline, ed. Aria W. Finifter, 1983, p. 70) stated that "political methodologists have expended much of their energies teaching the rest of the discipline new statistical techniques invented in other fields." He argued that they were too quick to look to techniques developed in other fields and to popularize these ...

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