Modern Political Science

by Adcock, Robert; Bevir, Mark; Stimson, Shannon C.

• ISBN13: 9780691128740
• ISBN10: 069112874X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-22
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

Since emerging in the late nineteenth century, political science has undergone a radical shift--from constructing grand narratives of national political development to producing empirical studies of individual political phenomena. What caused this change?Modern Political Science--the first authoritative history of Anglophone political science--argues that the field's transformation shouldn't be mistaken for a case of simple progress and increasing scientific precision. On the contrary, the book shows that political science is deeply historically contingent, driven both by its own inherited ideas and by the wider history in which it has developed. Focusing on the United States and the United Kingdom, and the exchanges between them,Modern Political Sciencecontains contributions from leading political scientists, political theorists, and intellectual historians from both sides of the Atlantic. Together they provide a compelling account of the development of political science, its relation to other disciplines, the problems it currently faces, and possible solutions to these problems. Building on a growing interest in the history of political science,Modern Political Scienceis necessary reading for anyone who wants to understand how political science got to be what it is today--or what it might look like tomorrow.

Author Biography

Robert Adcock is a visiting lecturer in political science at Stanford University. Mark Bevir and Shannon C. Stimson are professors of political science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
List of Contributors	ix
One A History of Political Science: How? What? Why?
Robert Adcock, Mark Bevir, and Shannon C. Stimson	1
Two Anglo-American Political Science, 1880-1920
Dorothy Ross	18
Three The Origins of a Historical Political Science in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Sandra M. den Otter	37
Four The Historical Science(s) of Politics: The Principles, Association, and Fate of an American Discipline
James Farr	66
Five The Emergence of an Embryonic Discipline: British Politics without Political Scientists
Dennis Kavanagh	97
Six A Tale of Two Charlies: Political Science, History, and Civic Reform, 1890-1940
Mark C. Smith	118
Seven Making Democracy Safe for the World: Political Science between the Wars
John G. Gunnell	137
Eight Birth of a Discipline: Interpreting British Political Studies in the 1950's and 1960's
Michael Kenny	158
Nine Interpreting Behavioralism
Robert Adcock	180
Ten The Remaking of Political Theory
Robert Adcock and Mark Bevir	209
Eleven Traditions of Political Science in Contemporary Britain
Mark Bevir and R.A.W. Rhodes	234
Twelve Historicizing the New Institutionalism(s)
Robert Adcock, Mark Bevir, and Shannon C. Stimson	259
Thirteen Institutionalism and the Third Way
Mark Bevir	290
Bibliography	313
Index	349