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A History of Political Science (Paperback)
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A History of Political Science (Paperback)
Series: Elements in Historical Theory and Practice
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This Element denaturalises political science, stressing the
contestability and contingency of ideas, traditions, subfields, and
even the discipline itself. The history of political science is
less one of scholars testing and improving theories by reference to
data than of their appropriating and transforming ideas, often
obscuring or obliterating former meanings, to serve new purposes in
shifting political contexts. Political science arose in the late
nineteenth century as part of a wider modernism that replaced
earlier developmental narratives with more formal explanations. It
changed as some scholars yoked together behavioural topics,
quantitative techniques, and positivist theory, and as other
scholars rejected their doing so. Subfields such as International
Relations remained semi-detached and focused on policy as much as
theory. Furthermore, the shifting fashions within political science
- modernism, behaviouralism, realism, neoliberalism, the new
institutionalism - have informed the policies by which governments
have tried to tame contingency and govern people.
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