Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Exchanges since 1880

367 Pages·2007·2.48 MB·English

by  Robert Adcock (ed.)

MODERN POLITICAL SCIENCE
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MODERN POLITICAL SCIENCE
ANGLO-AMERICAN EXCHANGES SINCE 1880
Edited by
Robert Adcock,
Mark Bevir, and
Shannon C. Stimson
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD
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Modernpoliticalscience:Anglo-Americanexchangessince1880/
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1.Politicalscience—History.2.Politicalscience—UnitedStates—History.
3.Politicalscience—GreatBritain—History.I.Adcock,Robert,date.
II.Bevir,Mark.III.Stimson,ShannonC.
JA81.M6652007
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
ListofContributors ix
One
AHistoryofPoliticalScience:How?What?Why?
RobertAdcock,MarkBevir,andShannonC.Stimson 1
Two
Anglo-AmericanPoliticalScience,1880–1920
DorothyRoss 18
Three
TheOriginsofaHistoricalPoliticalScienceinLateVictorianand
EdwardianBritain SandraM.denOtter 37
Four
TheHistoricalScience(s)ofPolitics:ThePrinciples,Association,
andFateofanAmericanDiscipline JamesFarr 66
Five
TheEmergenceofanEmbryonicDiscipline:BritishPolitics
withoutPoliticalScientists DennisKavanagh 97
Six
ATaleofTwoCharlies:PoliticalScience,History,andCivic
Reform,1890–1940 MarkC.Smith 118
Seven
MakingDemocracySafefortheWorld:PoliticalSciencebetween
theWars JohnG.Gunnell 137
Eight
BirthofaDiscipline:InterpretingBritishPoliticalStudiesinthe
1950sand1960s MichaelKenny 158
Nine
InterpretingBehavioralism
RobertAdcock 180
Ten
TheRemakingofPoliticalTheory
RobertAdcockandMarkBevir 209
vi CONTENTS
Eleven
TraditionsofPoliticalScienceinContemporaryBritain
MarkBevirandR.A.W.Rhodes 234
Twelve
HistoricizingtheNewInstitutionalism(s)
RobertAdcock,MarkBevir,andShannonC.Stimson 259
Thirteen
InstitutionalismandtheThirdWay
MarkBevir 290
Bibliography 313
Index 349
Acknowledgments
Modern Political Science derives from a conference we organized at the
UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,inSeptember2002.Fortheirgenerous
supportoftheconference,wethanktheDepartmentofPoliticalScience,
theInstituteofGovernmentalStudies,theInstituteofEuropeanStudies,
and the Townsend Center for the Humanities. We also thank all those
whocontributedsomuchtoourdiscussionsattheconference:ChrisAn-
sell, Henry Brady, David Hollinger, Martin Jay, David Robertson, and
Eric Schickler. Terry Ball and Jim Kloppenberg provided detailed com-
ments on the whole manuscript. Ian Malcolm, at Princeton University
Press, provided helpful support and advice. Laura Bevir prepared the
index.Wearegratefultothemall.
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Contributors
RobertAdcockisVisitingProfessorofPoliticalScienceatStanford
University,U.S.
MarkBevirisProfessorofPoliticalScienceattheUniversityof
California,Berkeley,U.S.
SandraM.denOtterisAssociateProfessorofHistoryatQueen’s
University,Canada.
JamesFarrisProfessorofPoliticalScienceattheUniversityof
Minnesota,U.S.
JohnG.GunnellisDistinguishedProfessorofPoliticalScienceatthe
StateUniversityofNewYorkatAlbany,U.S.
DennisKavanaghisProfessorofPoliticsattheUniversityof
Liverpool,UK.
MichaelKennyisProfessorofPoliticsatSheffieldUniversity,UK.
R.A.W.RhodesisProfessorofPoliticsintheResearchSchoolsof
theAustralianNationalUniversity.
DorothyRossisArthurO.LovejoyProfessorofHistoryatJohnsHopkins
University,U.S.
Mark C. Smith is Associate Professor of American Studies and History,
UniversityofTexasatAustin,U.S.
ShannonC.StimsonisProfessorofPoliticalScienceattheUniversity
ofCalifornia,Berkeley,U.S.