Abstract
fT_ _HE STUDY of winners and losers is only the personalization of an old problem: the gap between politics as a science and politics as a vocation. We too often treat the political world as possessed of self-evident properties apparent to any who study it. In point of fact, politics is anything but self-evident and hardly systematic, although dogmatists and model-builders may think otherwise. There are simply too many possibilities, options, and choices to permit consistent adherence to a normative framework. Efforts to do so may prove idiosyncratic no less than reductionist. Just as there is a perennial gap between social facts and theoretical possibilities, there is a similar range of discrepancies between political systems and human actors.
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