The perils of paradigm mentalities: Revisiting Kuhn, Lakatos, and Popper

Perspectives on Politics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 433-451

  Walker, Thomas C ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/S1537592710001180     Document Type: Article

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