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This essay explores how three components of the new political history—research on the motivations behind the rise of conservatism, the discovery of the nineteenth-century state, and arguments about the particularities of public policy—can offer useful analytical tools for political scientists.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE The American School -- CHAPTER TWO The British School -- CHAPTER THREE A Really Big Question -- CHAPTER FOUR The Control Gap -- CHAPTER FIVE The Mystery of the State -- CHAPTER SIX What Have We Learned? -- CHAPTER SEVEN New Bridges? -- References -- Index

Oakeshott's memorable lectures on the history of political thought, delivered each year at the London School of Economics, will now be available in print for the first time as Volume II of his Selected Writings. Based on manuscripts in the LSE archive for 1966-67, the last year of Oakeshott's tenure as Professor of Political Science, these thirty lectures deal with Greek, Roman, mediaeval, and modern European political thought in a uniquely accessible manner. Scholars familiar with Oakeshott...

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: Experimenting: a two-person game between man and nature / Laponce, J. A. -- I. EXPERIMENTS AND POLITICAL THEORY -- The contribution of experiments within the framework of political theory / Deutsch, Karl W. -- II. PRE-DAT A AND POST-DAT A EXPERIMENTS -- International tension as a function of reduced communication / Cappello, Hector M. -- The use of visual space to measure ideology / Laponce, J. A. -- Policy-making in American cities: comparisons in a quasi-longitudinal, quasi-experimental design / Eulau, Heinz -- Experiments in self-government: the Polish case / Wiatr, Jerzy J. -- III. SOCIAL AND PAPER GAMES -- The strategies of negotiation: an American-Japanese comparison / Mushakoji, Kinhide -- Rational behaviour in politics: evidence from a three-person game / Riker, William H. / Zavoina, William James -- Social skills and intercultural communication in politics / Argyle, Michael / Collett, Peter -- IV. COMPUTER SIMULATIONS -- From causal modelling to artificial intelligence: the evolution of a UN peace-making simulation / Alker, Hayward R. / Christenen, Cheryl -- Political coalitions and political behaviour: a simulation model / Cornblit, Oscar -- An event-based simulation of the Taiwan Straits crises / Pelowski, Allan L. -- Markov processes in international crises: an analytical addendum to an event-based simulation of the Taiwan Straits crises / Leavitt, Michael R. -- V. MAN AND MAN/ COMPUTER SIMULATIONS -- Image and reality in simulated international systems / Ruge, Mari Holmboe -- International processes simulation: a description / Smoker, Paul -- VI. EXPERIMENTATION, SIMULATION, AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- A planned change in organizational style: underlying theory and some results / Golembiewski, Robert T. -- Methodology for social planning: simulation and experimentation processes for participatory social development / Vertinsky, Ilan -- VII. SUBJECTS AND RESEARCHERS: RIGHTS AND DUTIES -- Ethical considerations and research procedures / Lanphier, C . Michael -- Index