Dividing the domain of political science: on the fetishism of subfields *.(Three Critiques of Trends in Political Science)

From: Polity | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

"Go to, let us centrifugate!"

Anonymous graduate student at The John Hopkins University in 1882. (1)

The Unruly Science of Rule

On reviewing the history of American political science, one might well conclude that the only concern that has truly unified this enterprise over the course of its first century is the question of whether political science is or is not a discipline. (2) While the occasional Panglossian tale has been told about the discipline's steady march toward the status of a genuine science, (3) far more common are the laments regarding the inability of ...

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