1st Edition

The Development of Political Science A Comparative Survey

Edited By David Easton, Luigi Graziano, John Gunnell Copyright 1990
306 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction 1 The historiography of American political science 2 The development of political science: methodological problems of comparative research 3 The interaction of the state and political science in Canada: a preliminary mapping 4 Cultural and contextual constraints upon the development of political science in Great Britain 5 Political development and political science in West Germany 6 The development and institutionalization of political science in Italy 7 French political science and its ‘subfields’: some reflections on the intellectual organization of the discipline in relation to its historical and social situation, 8 Political science in the Nordic countries 9 Political science in contemporary Spain: an overview 10 The sociology of political science in the People’s Republic of China 11 Political science in ‘Anglophone’ Africa: its context and developmental logic in historical perspective 12 Political science in the United States: past and present

Biography

David Easton (Edited by) ,  Luigi Graziano (Edited by) ,  John Gunnell (Edited by)