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The article aims to reconstruct and analyze process of developing a measurement scale in political science, and its methodological foundations. In the first part of the article a general theory of measurement is presented, focused on criteria for assessing its quality. A set of such criteria is given, and some procedures providing its fulfillment are presented. The second part of the article contains an analysis of typical process of developing a scale in political science. Basing upon a concept of Geraldo L. Munck and Jay Verkuilen, the author analyses process of building a scale of political democracy, as a set of three challenges for the researcher: a challenge of conceptualization, a challenge of measurement and a challenge of aggregation. As the analysis is made, some examples of most widespread and recognized indices of democracy are given, showing how their authors cope with those challenges.
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The subject of the article concerns the determinations of choices made by a person and their sources. Upon analysing the concepts that have appeared in social sciences to date, three model approaches were distinguished: (1) voluntarism, which assumed a lack of determination and pure volition of the source of the decision; (2) internal determinism, which searches for the source of the decision in factors within the human being itself, but not controlled by it; (3) fatalism, seeing the decisions made by persons as products of the environment in which they function. Next, the article presents the manner of approaching this issue as displayed by the most typical, in this respect, concepts in modern social sciences: sociological symbolic interactionism, sociologism with the idea of homo sociologicus, psychological behaviourism and psychoanalysis, sociobiology with evolutionary inclinations, the theory of rational choice and the Marxist approach.
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Artykuł stanowi próbę udzielenia odpowiedzi na pytania o to, czy są i – przy odpowiedzi twierdzącej – jakie są cechy charakterystyczne prowadzonych w Polsce badań i refleksji politologicznej. W tym celu wyróżnione zostały dwa wymiary odrębności, określone mianem specyfiki dyscyplinarnej (określającej cechy odróżniające politologię od innych dyscyplin, przede wszystkim wchodzących w skład nauk społecznych) oraz specyfiki lokalnej (odnoszącej się do tego, co jest charakterystyczne dla politologii polskiej na tle dyscypliny uprawianej w innych krajach, zwłaszcza z anglosaskiego kręgu kulturowego). Następnie dokonano analizy specyfiki polskich badań politologicznych w czterech podstawowych obszarach, przesądzających o tożsamości dyscypliny: 1) przedmiot badań, 2) stosowane metody badawcze, 3) struktura subdyscyplinarna, 4) struktura teorii funkcjonujących w ramach dyscypliny.
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The aim of the article is to examine whether and what are the characteristics of political science research and reflection conducted in Poland. To achieve this, two dimensions of specificity were distinguished, namely disciplinary specificity (features that distinguish political science from other disciplines, especially those within the social sciences) and local specificity (characteristic features of Polish political science compared to the discipline practiced in other countries, particularly Anglo-Saxon). The specificity of Polish political science was then analysed in four fundamental areas that determine the discipline’s identity: 1) the subject of research, 2) research methods, 3) subdisciplinary structure, and 4) structure of theories functioning within the discipline.
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The article aims to take part in discussion on possibility of defining unambiguous subject of research in political science. As theoretical knowledge is generally complex and multi-level structured, the subject of research in scientific discipline is forced fuzzy and ambiguous. This statement implies that methodological monism in defining scientific disciplines is entirely incorrect, as it ignores the very essence of theoretical knowledge in social sciences. The article contains analysis on four levels of theoretical knowledge and research: general disciplinary structure of science, structure of research in scientific discipline, structure of the core of scientific discipline and structure of individual elements of the core. Each level enforces particular ambiguity of subject of research, which is
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