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Political Concepts
A Working Paper Series of the Committee on Concepts and Methods
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| Frederic Charles Schaffer, "Why Don’t Political Scientists Coin More Terms?," September 2005 |
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| Abstract | | This paper explores the relationship between ordinary and political scientific languages by investigating what seems to be a curious fact. Despite the importance of coining new terms to the scientific enterprise, political scientists continue to rely heavily on everyday terms like "politics," "freedom," "democracy," "power," and "interest." Why haven't political scientists 1 invented more neologisms to replace these ordinary words, words that are arguably loose and 2 unscientific? |
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