Political science: reflecting on concepts, demystifying legends
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Preface -- What Political Science May (Not) Achieve -- Specialization and Teamwork: Current Challenges to the Discipline -- Political Science and Transition to Democracy: The German Experience -- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants -- The "Three Pillars of Hell": Hannah Arendt's Concept of Total Rule -- Sources, Merits, Limits -- Prospects of Pluralist Democracy in an Age of Economic Globalization and World-Wide Migration: A Tribute to Robert A. Dahl -- Klaus von Beyme: The Political Scientist as Global Scholar and Public Intellectual -- Two Profoundly Different Schools of Political Science -- Political Science in Great Britain and Germany: The Roles of LSE und DHfP -- From the Berlin Political Studies Institute to Columbia and Yale: Ernst Jaeckh and Arnold Wolfers -- Peenemünde: Challenging the Myth of Nonpolitical Technology -- Peenemünde, the V-2 and the Exploitation of Slave Labor. A Study in Reactionary Modernism -- The Peenemünde Legend: Origins, Perpetuation, Demise.