Methodology crisis in political sciences

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This paper deals with methodology crisis in political sciences, providing explanations for its causes and solutions for leaving the crisis behind. The methodology crisis in political sciences may be categorized into several groups: crises arising out of the confusion in the philosophy of science; crises resulting from philosophy of social sciences and problems specific to political sciences. When entering societies like ours, political concepts face with misinterpretation which reinforces the crisis in the methodology of political sciences. The most important solutions to leave behind the crisis in our society are: familiarity with modern methods, reading them critically and nativizing them, rereading the political heritage and its methods, and finally comparing and coordinating these two methods.

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