Study Questions for Little, Chapter 11

1. What is the author's main point?
2. What is naturalism?
3. What are the strengths and weaknesses of such an approach?
4. What are the core (and peripheral) features of science?
5. What research traditions are more naturalistic?
6. What phenomena in American politics are more amenable to a naturalistic approach?
7. What is antinaturalism?
8. What are the strengths and weaknesses of such an approach?
9. What research traditions are more anitnaturalistic?
10. What phenomena in American politics are more amenable to an antinaturalistic approach?
11. What are the strengths and weaknesses of methodological pluralism?
12. Why does any of this matter to political scientists?

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