An important contribution of Max Weber to political science was
a. developing the comparative method.
b. providing the classic definition of politics "who gets what, when, and how.".
c. putting the "science" in "political science" by asserting that by using methods of scientific inquiry one could find laws of human behavior, just like those of the natural world.
d. identifying and defining three types of authority.
e. leading a movement of some comparative politics scholars to reject causality as central to the study of politics and instead focus on degrees of association between two or more variables.
D
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