Making room for interpretivism? A pragmatic approach

Interpretivist scholars have carefully documented the minimal, at best, presence that interpretive philosophical perspectives and empirical methods have had in political science methods texts and curricula (Yanow and Schwartz-Shea 2002; Schwartz-Shea 2003). What are we to make of this absence? Is there a problem to be rectified here? Or an allocation decision justifiable in light of limited pedagogical time and resources?Given the profusion of philosophical perspectives and methods for accessing, generating, and analyzing data found in the social sciences as a whole, some absences are unavoidable in any single discipline. Thus, the fact of the relative absence of interpretivism in the methods training of political science graduate students cannot alone support arguments for (or against) giving it more room