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Beyond the Linear Frequentist Orthodoxy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2017

Philip A. Schrodt
Philip A. Schrodt*
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Department of Political Science, University of Kansas, 1541 Lilac Lane, Lawrence, KS 66045. e-mail: schrodt@ku.edu
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Every good book has a small bit—a sentence, paragraph, maybe a page—that the authors intended as a simple aside but which brings an epiphany to the reader. In Brady and Collier (2004), this occurs at the beginning of chapter 3: Brady's critique of the “quantitative template,” where the recovering seminarian frames our discourse on the philosophy of social inquiry in terms of pragmatic theology and homeliletics, rather than science or sociology. Hey, that is it!—while this debate is not in any sense about religion, its dynamics are best understood as though it were about religion. We have always known that, it just needed to be said.

Type
Symposium on Rethinking Social Inquiry
Information
Political Analysis , Volume 14 , Issue 3: Special Issue on Causal Complexity and Qualitative Methods , Summer 2006 , pp. 335 - 339
Copyright
Copyright © The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Political Methodology 

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