Political Political Science: A Phronetic Approach
Political Political Science: A Phronetic Approach
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政治政治学：语音方法
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2013
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T. Landman
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Sanford F. Schram;B. Flyvbjerg;T. Landman
五十多年来，一波又一波的批评强调，政治科学研究的非政治特征违背了该学科的创始使命，即让科学为民主服务。新政治学核心小组最初就是基于这样的批评，该学科的改革运动包括呼吁更多地以问题为导向，而不是以理论或方法为导向的工作，这样可以更好地将政治科学研究与正在进行的政治斗争联系起来。近年来，公共社会学和公共人类学的运动以及经济学和相关领域的不和谐运动更加坚定了社会科学研究常常与现实世界脱节的观点。声动社会科学是在社会科学变革的发酵中诞生的，始于本特·弗莱布约格 (Bent Flyvbjerg) 备受争议的《让社会科学变得重要》(Making Social Science Matter) 一书（剑桥，2001 年）。 Flyvbjerg 批评社会科学模仿自然科学，同时提出了一种替代方法，将研究重点放在帮助人们解决他们所面临的问题上。如今，语音社会科学超越了对社会探究的替代方法的呼吁，其越来越多的追随者正在提供证据，证明这种替代研究方法可以通过更有效地将研究与解决人们遇到的现实世界问题的努力联系起来，丰富社会科学。本文提供了将政治科学与政治联系起来的努力的谱系，回顾了主流研究的主要批评，解释了更多问题驱动的混合方法研究的基本原理，详细说明了语音方法的关键原则，以及其在公共领域的应用示例。文章最后提出了通过采取语音方法来实现更具政治性的政治科学的启示。
For over fifty years, successive waves of critique have underscored that the apolitical character of much of political science research betrays the founding mission of the discipline to have science serve democracy. The Caucus for a New Political Science was originally based on such a critique, and the perestroika movement in the discipline included a call for more problem-driven as opposed to theory- or method-driven work that would better connect political science research to ongoing political struggles. In recent years, movements for a public sociology and public anthropology as well as dissonant movements in economics and related fields have added to the insistence that social science research was too often disconnected from the real world. Phronetic social science has emerged out of the ferment for change in the social sciences, starting with the much-debated book by Bent Flyvbjerg, Making Social Science Matter (Cambridge, 2001). Flyvbjerg critiqued the social sciences for mimicking the natural sciences, while proposing an alternative approach that focuses research on helping people address the problems they are facing. Today, phronetic social science goes beyond the call for an alternative approach to social inquiry and its growing adherents are providing evidence that this alternative approach to doing research can enrich the social sciences by more effectively connecting research to efforts to address real world problems as people experience them. This article provides a genealogy of efforts to connect political science to politics, a review of the major critiques of mainstream research, an explication of the rationale for more problem-driven, mixed-methods research, a specification of the key principles of the phronetic approach, and examples of its application in the public realm. The article concludes with implications for realizing a more political political science by way of taking a phronetic approach.