Keith Dowding is Professor of Political Science at Australian National University, and was previously Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, UK. He has written many articles for major political science and political philosophy journals as well as books including Exits, Voices and Social Investment (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Accounting for Ministers (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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• 1. Introduction2. Isms3. What Is an Explanation?4. What Is a Theory?5. Hypotheses and Theory Testing6. Narratives, Mechanisms and Causation7. Methods and Methodologies8. Concepts and Conceptual Analysis9. Analytic Political Philosophy10. Political Science as a Vocation.

Keith Dowding is Professor of Political Science at Australian National University, and was previously Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, UK. He has written many articles for major political science and political philosophy journals as well as books including Exits, Voices and Social Investment (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Accounting for Ministers (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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• 1. Introduction2. Isms3. What Is an Explanation?4. What Is a Theory?5. Hypotheses and Theory Testing6. Narratives, Mechanisms and Causation7. Methods and Methodologies8. Concepts and Conceptual Analysis9. Analytic Political Philosophy10. Political Science as a Vocation.

Keith Dowding is Professor of Political Science at Australian National University, and was previously Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, UK. He has written many articles for major political science and political philosophy journals as well as books including Exits, Voices and Social Investment (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Accounting for Ministers (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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• 1. Introduction2. Isms3. What Is an Explanation?4. What Is a Theory?5. Hypotheses and Theory Testing6. Narratives, Mechanisms and Causation7. Methods and Methodologies8. Concepts and Conceptual Analysis9. Analytic Political Philosophy10. Political Science as a Vocation.