Theory and Evidence in Comparative Politics and International Relations

1. What Can We Know? How Do We Know?

1. What Can We Know? How Do We Know?
Richard Ned Lebow

Part I. Foundational Claims

2. Evidence, Inference, and Truth as Problems of Theory Building in the Social Sciences
Friedrich V. Kratochwil

3. The Limits of Interpreting Evidence
Ted Hopf

Part II. The Product of Inquiry

4. Beyond Logical Positivism: Reframing King, Keohane, and Verba
Brian M. Pollins

5. Methodological Pluralism and the Limits of Naturalism in the Study of Politics
Fred Chernoff

Part III. The Purpose and Methods of Research

6. Transforming Inferences into Explanations: Lessons from the Study of Mass Extinctions
David Waldner

7. Theory, Evidence, and Politics in the Evolution of International Relations Research Programs
Jack S. Levy

8. Imperial Peace or Imperial Method? Skeptical Inquiries into Ambiguous Evidence for the “Democratic Peace”
Andrew Lawrence

Part IV. New Directions

9. Social Science as Case-Based Diagnostics
Steven Bernstein, Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein, Steven Weber

10. Theory and Evidence
Mark Irving Lichbach

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Political Sociology, Political Science, Political History, Comparative Politics