Abstract
r _HIS ESSAY is grounded on the premise that political science as a discipline still suffers the scarcely diminished sway of epistemological 5L assumptions distilled from positivistic philosophy of science.' Persistent deference to these assumptions justifies the label standard position or orthodoxy.2 It is further assumed that the persistence of this orthodoxy within political science encourages uneven development. Many important questions for which so-called subjective data is appropriate fail to attract the investments of time and publishing space that their importance merits because, by the canons of orthodoxy, they are not thought to be amenable to disciplined treatment. Obversely, questions which lend themselves to
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