Reflections on ethnographic work in political science

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 13, Issue , 2010, Pages 255-272

  Wedeen, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Falsifiability; Interpretive social science; Objectivity; Participant observation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952902445     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.11.052706.123951     Document Type: Article

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