ABSTRACT
Two major methodological pathways guide researchers on the road to political science knowledge: the positivist or behavioralist road, and the postpositivist or interpretist road. The positivist approach is quantitative research; measurements are a guidepost on this road. The postpositivist approach is qualitative research; interpretations guide researchers on this road. The positivist and postpositivist approaches are the chief methodological schools that political scientists follow to gain knowledge about the political world. This chapter describes these pathways.
