Challenging the new interpretivist approach: Towards a critical realist alternative

British Politics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 113-138

  McAnulla, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency; Critical realism; Epistemology; Interpretivism; Ontology; Positivism

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250853013     PISSN: 1746918X     EISSN: 17469198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.bp.4200013     Document Type: Article

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