Comparative European politics

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At the other side of the looking glass usually focused at political science, contributors offer a personalized look at 27 leading figures in the field: from a biographical essay on founding father Carl Joachim Friedrich ("The Common Man", 1942) to UC Berkeley's Harold L. Wilensky ("Democratic Corporatism and Policy Linkages", 1987) who cautions one to "avoid two misleading dichotomies, quantitative vs. qualitative' and positivist vs. humanist' " in his autobiographical essay, "A Journey Through the Social Sciences." Other scholars whose intellectual shaping is depth-sounded include: Stein Rokkan ("Democracy in a World of Tensions", 1951 with McKeon); S. E. Finer ("Comparative Government", 1970); and Ted R. Gurr ("Why Men Rebel", 1970). Distributed by Books International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.