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100 1 _aBevir, Mark,
245 1 2 _aA history of political science /
_cMark Bevir.
264 1 _aCambridge, United Kingdom ;
_aNew York, NY :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2022.
300 _a72 pages.
490 0 _aCambridge elements. Elements in historical theory and practice
505 0 _aIntroduction -- The rise of political science -- Modernist moments -- Thinking globally -- Neoliberalism and after -- The revenge of history.
520 _a"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"--
650 0 _aPolitical science
650 0 _aPolitical science
650 0 _aPolitical science
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