Regime and Discipline: Democracy and the Development of Political Science

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University of Michigan Press, 1995 - 296 strani
Is the discipline of political science a specific by-product of democratic regimes? Can it develop and have an impact only where democracy itself is flourishing? Or is it possible to forge such a discipline in authoritarian and transitional regimes? These are the central questions of Regime and Discipline: Democracy and the Development of Political Science. The contributors to this volume approach the problem from methodological and substantive perspectives. The methodological debate is presented in terms of whether the goal of objectivity and neutrality in disciplinary history is desirable and attainable, or whether all such histories are inherently "whiggish" or "pessimistic", and mere ex post facto justifications of a particular disciplinary perspective. The volume then explores the relationship between democracy and the development of political science in a variety of national settings and political regimes, including older Western democracies (such as the United States, Britain, France, and Germany), newer democracies (Japan and other Asian countries), and current transitional regimes (such as Argentina, Hungary, and Poland). The contributions reflect both consensus and disagreement about the nature of the interactive relationship between political science and democracy. Indeed, a fundamental debate centers on the very terms democracy and political science. Nevertheless, with one or two exceptions, the participants do acknowledge that some kind of relationship does in fact exist between democracy and political science, be it interactive and correlational or causal.
 

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History and Discipline in Political Science
27
Can Political Science History Be Neutral?
49
In Praise of Whiggism and Other Good Things
79
A Philosophy
99
Major Factors in the Emergence of Political Science
169
The Emergence of the Science of Democracy and
197
The Impact of Democratization on Political Science
217
The Case of Political Science
249
Democracy and the Development of Political Science
269
Contributors
295
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Political scientist David Easton was born in Toronto, Ontario, and was educated at the University of Toronto and Harvard University. A professor of political science at the University of Chicago since 1955, Easton has also served as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a consultant to the Brookings Institution. The author of a number of important works, he is probably best known for The Political System: An Inquiry into the State of Political Science (1953). In both his work and writing, Easton is concerned primarily with the study of political science as a discipline, focusing on political theory and the importance of the field. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Political Science Association, he has received honorary degrees from McMaster University and Kalamazoo College.

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