Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom, Let One Hundred Thoughts Contend: Political Science with Chinese Characteristics

Over the last decade, American political science has experienced a contentious battle over the primacy of quantitative versus qualitative methodology – a battle that, if appraised from afar, could be described as a fight that addresses the very nature and practice of political science as a discipline itself. Simply put, post-war American political science has dominated the discipline throughout the world and continues to have a disproportionate...