THE ROLE OF EXPLANATION IN MEANING OF ACTIONS AND POLITICAL
PHENOMENON
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profesor w Instytucie Nauk Politycznych Uniwersytetu
Warszawskiego
Publication date: 2020-01-26
Studia Politologiczne 2010;17
ABSTRACT
The article concerns the role of explanatory procedures in scientific research of
a political scientist. Basic varieties of these procedures have been presented: causal
(structural, functional), intentional (rational), model and integral. Their role in basic
practical research was presented based on the answer to the following questions:
why was there a famine disaster in Russia in 1891 and why did real socialism
collapse in Poland in 1989. The knowledge-formation role of the explanatory
procedure is the key point of focus. This role is vast when it refers to answering
questions, why qualitative transformation takes place.