How Do You Use the Archive in a Political Science Project?

As a political scientist, what implications did your disciplinary training have in thinking about how you went about doing the archive research that you did? And as an interpretist, were there particular reading methods that you adopted, or other techniques that you had working in the archives in attending to the interpretive work that your low level administrators themselves are doing? For years, i wanted a decisive turning point. The more i read through the archives and again, reading of the excise administration reports,. over and over, i came to see it was never a single point. It was, in a way, something that continued. So this is a kind of ing between what i think of with my comparative political scientists hat

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