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A history of political science / (Record no. 10487)

MARC details
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fixed length control field 01788cam a22001938i 4500
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9781009044295
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 320.09
MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Bevir, Mark,
TITLE STATEMENT
Title A history of political science /
Statement of responsibility, etc Mark Bevir.
Copyright Date
Place of publication Cambridge, United Kingdom ;
-- New York, NY :
Name of publisher Cambridge University Press,
Year of publication or production 2022.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages 72 pages.
SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Cambridge elements. Elements in historical theory and practice
FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Introduction -- The rise of political science -- Modernist moments -- Thinking globally -- Neoliberalism and after -- The revenge of history.
SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "This Element denaturalizes 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 focussed 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"--
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Political science
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Political science
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Political science
ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Library of Congress Classification
Koha item type Books
Holdings
Permanent Location Current Location Date acquired Full call number Accession Number Koha item type
Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). 09/21/2023 JA81 .B48 2022 0186841 Books
Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). 09/21/2023 JA81 .B48 2022 0186842 Books
Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). 09/21/2023 JA81 .B48 2022 0186843 Books

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