Description
Book SynopsisFocuses on the postwar Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller programs that reshaped political science. Emily Hauptmann shows how significant changes in the methods and research interests of postwar political scientists began as responses to the priorities set by their philanthropic patrons.
Trade Review"Emily Hauptmann’s Foundations and American Political Science makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the development of US political science in the postwar era, and particularly of the role of private philanthropy in shaping both the discipline itself and the institutions and practices of American higher education more generally. It is deeply researched and clearly written and organized. This is an impressive work."—Jessica Blatt, associate professor of political science at Marymount Manhattan College
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I: FOUNDATIONS
1. “Propagandists for the Behavioral Sciences”: The Carnegie Corporation and the SSRC
2. The Ford Foundation’s “Golden Eggs” and the Constitution of Behavioralism
3. A “Catholic” Approach: The Rockefeller Foundation’s Diversified Social Science Program
PART II: UNIVERSITIES
4. The Transformation of Political Science at Michigan: Patronage and the Rise of Political Behavior Research
5. Political Science at Berkeley: Growth, Conflict, and Dispersal
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
