to bolster hit case, deLeon juxtaposes the works of a number of eminent political science philosophers, such as James Rosenau and Charles Lindblom. As deLeon (1998) point up, Rosenau saw the primary purpose of political science as moving "up the ladder of generalization and construct theories that encompass and explain more and more of the phenomena that make up the universe of politics. Lindblom (1990), conversely, questioned the utility of any social science findings for social tasks or offorts.