Disenchanted realists: political science and the American crisis, 1884 - 1984

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Bruce Miroff and Stephen Skowronek -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Institutionalists and Radical Democrats -- The Third Tradition: Beyond Mechanics and Spontaneity -- Modernism as Channeled Flux -- Sovereignty and the State -- Citizenship and Legitimacy -- Civic Education -- The Search for Reform Politics -- 2. The Impulse toward a Science of Politics, 1880-1900 -- The Attack on Amateurs -- The Profession Builders -- The Strange Populism of the Founder of American Sociology -- The Literary Politician and the Administrative Elite -- The American Crisis Formulated -- 3. Science as Muckraking: The Cult of Realism in the Progressive Era -- Arthur F. Bentley: The Objective Science of Middle-Class Revolution -- The Fashioning of Scientific Politics -- Progressive Science as Critical Unmasking -- Between Science and Sentiment: The Chastened Optimism of Charles Austin Beard -- The Paradox of Realism -- Realism versus Reform: Beard's Confrontation with the American Political Tradition -- The Return to "Values -- The Demise of Fact Gathering -- 4. Reform and Disillusionment in the New Deal -- Charles E. Merriam and the Crisis of American Democracy -- Behavioral Political Science and the Crisis of American Democracy -- The Making of a Rational Public -- Charles E. Merriam and the New Deal -- Reform versus Science -- The Reformer as Therapist: Harold D. Lasswell -- The Early Works -- The Eclipse of Reform Science: Conclusions -- 5. The Behavioral Era -- V. O. and the Third Tradition -- Behavioralism as Pure Science -- Empirical Democratic Theory -- Legitimacy, Power, and the Political Subculture -- The Behavioralism of David Truman -- From Reformism to Behavioralism -- Pluralist Democracy -- The Seeds of the Whirlwind -- Reality Destroys Realism -- 6. The Eclipse of Unity.