Modern Political Science : Anglo-American Exchanges Since 1880

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

• ISBN13: 9781400827763
• ISBN10: 1400827760
• Copyright: 2008-09-02
• 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. ix
A History of Political Science: How? What? Why?	p. 1
Anglo-American Political Science, 1880-1920	p. 18
The Origins of a Historical Political Science in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain	p. 37
The Historical Science(s) of Politics: The Principles, Association, and Fate of an American Discipline	p. 66
The Emergence of an Embryonic Discipline: British Politics without Political Scientists	p. 97
A Tale of Two Charlies: Political Science, History, and Civic Reform, 1890-1940	p. 118
Making Democracy Safe for the World: Political Science between the Wars	p. 137
Birth of a Discipline: Interpreting British Political Studies in the 1950s and 1960s	p. 158
Interpreting Behavioralism	p. 180
The Remaking of Political Theory	p. 209
Traditions of Political Science in Contemporary Britain	p. 234
Historicizing the New Institutionalism(s)	p. 259
Institutionalism and the Third Way	p. 290
Bibliography	p. 313
Index	p. 349
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