Discipline and History: Political Science in the United States

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James Farr, Raymond Seidelman
University of Michigan Press, 1993 - 427 Seiten

James Farr and Raymond Seidelman bring new historical reflection to the "state of the discipline" debate in political science. This anthology offers a panorama of views about the state of the discipline that have been sketched by leading political scientists and disciplinary historians from the late nineteenth century to the past.

The essays in this volume explore four distinct periods in the development of the discipline, with special emphasis on the subfields of American politics and political theory, revealing that the identity of the discipline is constituted not so much by agreements over fundamental principles as by the history of debates about the meaning of politics, the methods of science, the theories of behavioralism and the state, and the responsibilities of public professionals and civic educators.

Contributors are Terence Ball, Charles A. Beard, John W. Burgess, Robert A. Dahl, David Easton, John G. Gunnell, Norman Jacobson, Harold D. Lasswell, Francis Lieber, Charles E. Merriam, David M. Ricci, William H. Riker, Dorothy Ross, Helene Silverberg, Leonard D. White, Woodrow Wilson, and W.W. Willoughby.

Its unprecedented treatment of the history of political science makes Discipline and History essential reading for political scientists and their students. Historians of the social sciences will also find much to consider.

 

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History and Political Science Necessary Studies in Free Countries
21
The Study of Administration
33
The Idea and Forms of the State
46
The American Political Science Association
55
Political Science and the State
59
The Development of the Social Sciences
75
Introduction
101
Politics
107
Political Science MidCentury
215
The Idea of a Political System and the Orientation of Political Research
221
Epitaph for a Monument to a Successful Protest
241
Political Science and Political Education
257
Introduction
275
Past and Present
281
Political Scientists Disenchanted Realists and Disappearing Democrats
301
Another State of Mind
317

Recent Advances in Political Methods
121
The Bias of American Political Science
139
Specialists on Intelligence
151
Contradictions of a Political Discipline
157
American Political Science Liberalism and the Invention of Political Theory
171
Introduction
193
American Political Science in Its Postwar Political Context
199
An Essay on the History of Political Science
333
The History of the Behavioralist Compromise
349
How We Become What We Study
369
Contributors
383
Bibliography
389
Index
403
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