andrew heywood

• siyaset bilimi alanındaki kitaplarının birçok okulda ders kitabı olarak okutulduğu akademisyen yazar. özellikle siyasi ideolojileri açıklarken takındığı objektif tavır sayesinde kitabı okurken kalemimi elimden bırakamıyorum. yalnız kitapların türkçe çevirilerinin berbatlığı nedeniyle orjinal dilinde okumakta fayda var.
  kuhn'un siyasi ideolojiler hakkındaki görüşlerine değindiği bir kısım ;
  
  ''according to kuhn, the natural sciences are dominated at any time by a single paradigm; science develops through a series of 'revolutions' in which an old paradigm is replaced by a new one. political and social enquiry is, however, different, in that it is a battleground of contending and competing paradigms. these paradigms take the form of broad social philosophies, usually called 'political ideologies': liberalism, conservatism, socialism, fascism, feminism and so on. each presents its own account of social existence; each offers a particular view of the world. to portray these ideologies as theoretical paradigms is not, of course, to say the most, if not all, political analysis is narrowly ideological, in the sense that it advances the interests of a particular group or class. rather, it merely acknowledges that political analysis is usually carried out on the basis of a particular ideological tradition. much of academic political science, for example, has been constructed according to liberal-rationalist assumptions, and thus bears the imprint of its liberal heritage.''