Modern political science : Anglo-American exchanges since 1880 / edited by Robert Adcock, Mark Bevir, and Shannon C. Stimson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adcock, Robert, 1974-

Bevir, Mark.

Stimson, Shannon C.

Series:

Princeton paperbacks.

Princeton paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--History.

Political science.

Political science--United States--History.

Political science--Great Britain--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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 Science contains 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 Science is 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.

Contents:

A history of political science : how? : what? : why? / Robert Adcock, Mark Bevir, Shannon C. Stimson

Anglo-American political science, 1880-1920 / Dorothy Ross

The origins of a historical political science in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain / Sandra M. den Otter

The historical science(s) of politics : the principles, association, and fate of an American discipline / James Farr

The emergence of an embryonic discipline : British politics without political scientists / Dennis Kavanagh

A tale of two Charlies : political science, history, and civic reform, 1890-1940 / Mark C. Smith

Making democracy safe for the world : political science between the wars / John G. Gunnell

Birth of a discipline : interpreting British political studies in the 1950s and 1960s / Michael Kenny

Interpreting behavioralism / Robert Adcock

The remaking of political theory / Robert Adcock, Mark Bevir

Traditions of political science in contemporary Britain / Mark Bevir, R. A. W. Rhodes

Historicizing the new institutionalism(s) / Robert Adcock, Mark Bevir, Shannon C. Stimson

Institutionalism and the third way / Mark Bevir.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-348) and index.

ISBN:

9786612129599

9781282129597

1282129597

9781400827763

1400827760

OCLC:

329562740