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In this article the author reviews important works in polimetrics and discusses some major problems which he believes polimetricians must cope withsquarely. Three problems of major importance in furthering polimetrics as one of the fields of study in the social sciences are the following: first, the problem of operationalization of concepts; second, the problem of strong inference or the problem of establishing relationships between variables most efficiently; third, the problem of modelling social systems as complex adaptive systems possessed of a self-restructuring property. His discussion covers more than fourteen works in diverse methodological traditions which have attempted seriously to cope with or even to overcome these methodological difficulties. On the basis of this discussion, the three problems are assessed, and some prospects for further development of polimetrics are suggested from the basic perspective that the cardinal aim of polimetrics is to contribute to better and deeper understanding of political phenomena.
