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Book SynopsisPresents the history of Anglophone political science which argues that the field's transformation shouldn't be mistaken for a case of simple progress and increasing scientific precision. This book shows that political science is deeply historically contingent, driven both by its own inherited ideas and by the history in which it has developed.
Trade Review"The erudition is uniformly impressive. The book succeeds in showing how the history of political science is not merely of antiquarian interest but of continuing and vital relevance to how political scientists today go about their craft."--Geoffrey Brahm Levey, European Legacy
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii List of Contributors ix Chapter One: A History of Political Science: How? What? Why? Robert Adcock, Mark Bevir, and Shannon C. Stimson 1 Chapter Two: Anglo-American Political Science, 1880-1920 Dorothy Ross 18 Chapter Three: The Origins of a Historical Political Science in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain Sandra M. den Otter 37 Chapter Four: The Historical Science(s) of Politics: The Principles, Association, and Fate of an American Discipline James Farr 66 Chapter Five: The Emergence of an Embryonic Discipline: British Politics without Political Scientists Dennis Kavanagh 97 Chapter Six: A Tale of Two Charlies: Political Science, History, and Civic Reform, 1890-1940 Mark C. Smith 118 Chapter Seven: Making Democracy Safe for the World: Political Science between the Wars John G. Gunnell 137 Chapter Eight: Birth of a Discipline: Interpreting British Political Studies in the 1950s and 1960s Michael Kenny 158 Chapter Nine: Interpreting Behavioralism Robert Adcock 180 Chapter Ten: The Remaking of Political Theory Robert Adcock and Mark Bevir 209 Chapter Eleven: Traditions of Political Science in Contemporary Britain Mark Bevir and R.A.W. Rhodes 234 Chapter Twelve: Historicizing the New Institutionalism(s) Robert Adcock, Mark Bevir, and Shannon C. Stimson 259 Chapter Thirteen: Institutionalism and the Third Way Mark Bevir 290 Bibliography 313 Index 349
