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A common, though simplistic, narrative of China's involvement in Africa is one of Chinese dominance and debt trap diplomacy. However, as with most political, economic, and social phenomena, China's involvement in Africa is much more nuanced.

Intro -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Donatella Campus, Gianfranco Pasquino and Martin Bull -- Chapter 1 - Gabriel A. Almond: Comparative Politics and Political Development -- Gianfranco Pasquino -- Chapter 2 - Raymond Aron or the Three Dimensions of Political Science: Critical Philosophy of History, Political Sociology and Theory of International Relations -- Stephen Launay -- Chapter 3 - Philip Converse: Normalising the Vote and Voting Studies -- Jocelyn Evans -- Chapter 4 - Maurice Duverger: A Law, a Hypothesis and a Paradox -- Robert Elgie -- Chapter 5 - Stanley Hoffmann: Managing the Unmanageable: A Concern for World Order -- Martin A. Schain -- Chapter 6 - Paul Lazarsfeld: The Founder of Empirical Electoral Research -- Donatella Campus -- Chapter 7 - Arend Lijphart: Power Sharing and the Pursuit of a Kinder and Gentler Democratic Society -- Hans Keman -- Chapter 8 - Elinor Ostrom: Politics as Problem-Solving in Polycentric Settings -- Michael D. McGinnis -- Chapter 9 - William H. Riker: and the Building of a Science of Politics (Positive Political Theory) -- Daniela Giannetti -- Chapter 10 - Stein Rokkan: The Macro-Sociological Fresco of State, Nation and Democracy in Europe -- Daniele Caramani -- Chapter 11 - Susan Strange: The Authority of Questioning -- Eugenia Baroncelli.

Government interventions in response to Covid-19 make clear that the state can act as an extremely powerful guarantor of economic and health security. But has the crisis, and the subsequent governmental response, shifted voters' attitudes about the role that the government should play in society more generally? In a recent study, Tim Hicks, Tom O'Grady, and Jack Blumenau (UCL) examine whether the pandemic has led to a reversal of 'small state' ideology. To discuss the implications of their findings they are joined by Lord (Stewart) Wood, special adviser to Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband, and by Ailbhe Rea, political correspondent at the New Statesman.

This volume provides a history of the concepts, practices, institutions, and ideologies of social sciences (including behavioural and economic sciences) since the eighteenth century. It offers original, synthetic accounts of the historical development of social knowledge, including its philosophical assumptions, its social and intellectual organization, and its relations to science, medicine, politics, bureaucracy, philosophy, religion, and the professions. Its forty-two chapters include inquiries into the genres and traditions that formed social science, the careers of the main social disciplines (psychology, economics, sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, history, and statistics), and international essays on social science in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It also includes essays that examine the involvement of the social sciences in government, business, education, culture, and social policy. This is a broad cultural history of social science, which analyzes from a variety of perspectives its participation in the making of the modern world

Written for students and researchers in political science comparative politics and sociology, this text offers a comprehensive introduction to methods and statistics in research in political science.