Empirical methods have been tra-ditionally presented as the foundation on which to build
the new political science. Its practitioners studied empirical phe-nomena in the search for
general laws to serve as a basis for a positive science. Economics is a different type of
science, based on the power of deductive theories derived from a minimum number of basic
assumptions about the individual and how individuals are related to one another and a
physical world. It is not easy to integrate these two ways of understanding the complex …