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The Science of Politics: New and Old

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EastonDavid, The Political System: An Inquiry into the State of Political Science, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1953, 320 pp. $4.00.
VoegelinEric, The New Science of Politics: An Introductory Essay, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1952, 193 pp. $3.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Robert A. Dahl
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World Politics , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , April 1955 , pp. 479 - 489
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1955

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1 To urge this focus would, of course, be to commit the same fallacy of “essences” mentioned above, but we are only concerned with Easton's criticism here.

2 E.g., Hempel, Carl, Fundamentals of Concept Formation in Empirical Science, Chicago, I11., 1952.Google Scholar

3 I am not defending historicism or, for that matter, positivism. The question is as to the validity of Voegelin's New Science, not the validity of the views he attacks. One may logically conclude that both historicism and Voegelin's attack on it are false.