1st Edition

Combining Political History and Political Science Towards a New Understanding of the Political

Edited By Carlos Domper Lasús, Giorgia Priorelli Copyright 2023
242 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book shows how a multidisciplinary approach combining conceptual and methodological tools from political history and political science can help to develop a deeper understanding of contemporary political phenomena including democracy, populism, war, and forced migrations, among others. Throughout the eleven chapters, the volume brings together senior academics and early-career scholars... Read more

Introduction: Political History and Political Science —The Great Potential of an Under-Explored Collaboration

Carlos Domper Lasús and Giorgia Priorelli

1. Political Science and Political History: Creating a New Integral Approach

Sho Muto

2. Corporatism and Dictatorship: Between Politics and History

António Costa Pinto

3. Approaching Elections Under Autocracies from a Multidisciplinary Political Perspective: The Case of Iberian Dictatorships (1945-1975)

Carlos Domper Lasús

4. War: The Necessary Reassembly of a Fragmented Research Object

Luca Baldissara

5. History and Political Science in Forced Migration Studies: Interlacing Seemingly Incompatible Approaches of Analysis

Giorgia Priorelli

6. Transition to Democracy

Miguel Ángel Ruiz Carnicer

7. Political Science as a Modernist Project

Giovanni Orsina

8. Thinking with History in Policy

Lorenzo Castellani

9. A Never-Ending Crisis?: The History of the Mass Party in the Social Sciences and History

Anne Heyer

10. Studying Populism at the Intersection of Political Science and Political History: The Case of the Boerenpartij in the Netherlands, 1950s–1970s

Simon Tunderman, Léonie de Jonge, and Stefan Couperus

11. Teaching Communism and Post-Communism in the 21st Century

Andres Garcia Aravena and Vladimir Tismaneanu

Biography

Carlos Domper Lasús is a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the History Department of the Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). His work aims at integrating Iberian dictatorships into post-1945 Western Europe history.

Giorgia Priorelli is a María Zambrano Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of History at the Universitat de Girona (Spain). Her research interests include nationalism, Italian and Spanish fascisms, refugees and forced displacement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.