Book Description
In this volume, scholars take up the challenge of disciplinary history by exploring the themes and movements that have shaped political science today.
Author : James F. Farr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 1995-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521479554
In this volume, scholars take up the challenge of disciplinary history by exploring the themes and movements that have shaped political science today.
Author : David Easton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134935242
In recent years the history of political science has become recognised as an important but neglected area of study. The Development of Political Science is the first comprehensive discussion of the subject in a comparative international perspective. Offering a wide-ranging account of the development of the subject and its dissemination across national borders and cultural divides, the book begins with a study of the historiography of the discipline in the United States, a country which has been at the forefront of the field. Widening its discussion to emphasise Western Europe as a focus for comparison, the contributors provide studies of further areas of interest such as China and Africa. This particular approach emphasises the book's vision of political science as a growing transnational body of knowledge. In presenting critical analysis of the state of the field, this vigorous study aims to further the development of the discipline in the countries discussed, and to provide a work that is interesting not only to political scientists, but to all those concerned with the development of the social sciences.
Author : George Klosko
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 28,53 MB
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019969544X
History of Political Theory: An Introduction is an engaging introduction to the main figures in the history of Western Political Theory and their most important works. The second volume traces the origin and development of liberal political theory, and so the foundations for contemporary views.
Author : Paul Pierson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 24,82 MB
Release : 2011-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400841089
This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that "history matters." Most contemporary social scientists unconsciously take a "snapshot" view of the social world. Yet the meaning of social events or processes is frequently distorted when they are ripped from their temporal context. Paul Pierson argues that placing politics in time--constructing "moving pictures" rather than snapshots--can vastly enrich our understanding of complex social dynamics, and greatly improve the theories and methods that we use to explain them. Politics in Time opens a new window on the temporal aspects of the social world. It explores a range of important features and implications of evolving social processes: the variety of processes that unfold over significant periods of time, the circumstances under which such different processes are likely to occur, and above all, the significance of these temporal dimensions of social life for our understanding of important political and social outcomes. Ranging widely across the social sciences, Pierson's analysis reveals the high price social science pays when it becomes ahistorical. And it provides a wealth of ideas for restoring our sense of historical process. By placing politics back in time, Pierson's book is destined to have a resounding and enduring impact on the work of scholars and students in fields from political science, history, and sociology to economics and policy analysis.
Author : Hugh Stretton
Publisher : London : Routledge & K. Paul
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN :
Treatise on social sciences methodology, with particular reference to the role of the historian and scientist in social research - covers theoretical and political aspects, social implications, historical approaches, trends, scientific practice, value-judgements, etc. Bibliography pp. 435 to 439.
Author : Katharina C. Cramer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 34,77 MB
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030500497
This book investigates the political history of Big Science in Europe in the late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century, characterised by the founding histories of two collaborative, single-sited facilities namely the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France and the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (European XFEL) in Schenefeld, Germany. Under the heading of the other Europe, this book presents the history and politics of European Big Science as an alternative road to (Western) European integration besides the mainstream political integration process of the European Economic Community and the European Union. It shows that Big Science has a role to play in European politics and policymaking and that the crucial and unavoidable symbiosis between science, technology and politics brings the creation of Big Science projects back to geopolitical realities.
Author : James W. Ceaser
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2006-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674021587
In this inaugural volume of the Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures, Ceaser traces how certain “foundational” ideas—including nature, history, and religion—have been understood and used over the course of American history. Three commentators challenge his arguments, and a spirited debate about large and enduring questions in American politics ensues.
Author : Robert Adcock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400827760
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.
Author : Bryan-Paul Frost
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 963 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1498558704
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers across era and ideologies, helping another generation of students, scholars, and citizens to understand more fully the meaning of America. This new second edition of the book includes chapters on several additional historical figures, including Walt Whitman, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Ronald Reagan, as well as a new chapter on Barack Obama, who was not prominent in public life when the first edition was published. Significant revisions and additions have also been made to many of the original chapters, most notably on Antonin Scalia, which now updates his full legacy, increasing the breadth and depth of the collection.
Author : Henry Jones Ford
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781508731559
"Prof. Ford's book is a suggestive attempt to construct, from a study of such facts or reasonable implications of biology, anthropology, and philology as relate to the origin of man, a scientific theory of the origin and nature of the state. Briefly stated, the theory affirms that the state is as properly to be regarded an organism as is any form of animal life; that it has its origin in the formation of communities among animals earlier than man. . . . The Individual, accordingly, is a derivative rather than an original; the state Is absolute in its relation to the individual units; and different types of government develop according to the conditions and needs of different environments. . . . 'The test of value in any Institution to primarily not the advantage of the Individual but the advantage of society' (p. 177)." —The Nation "A scholarly contribution, of interest to advanced students in political science and students of government and law generally. List of authorities (4p.)." —The New Republic "As a whole, the book may be said to be an excellent summary of the argument for a social origin of society, as against the obsolete Individualism of the social contract theory, but it fails to prove that the state had a pre-human origin or to give a satisfactory notion of what the author means by state, government, and sovereignty." —Boston Transcript