The Nature of Contemporary Political Science: A Roundtable Discussion
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 34-43
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 34-43
In: British journal of political science, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 237
ISSN: 0007-1234
In: American political science review, Band 83, Heft 4, S. 1361-1362
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: British journal of political science, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 237-259
ISSN: 1469-2112
In: American political science review, Band 82, Heft 3, S. 853-874
ISSN: 1537-5943
Three important questions are raised by the "return to the state" movement of recent years. First, are the pluralist, structural functionalist, and Marxist literatures of political science societally reductionist, as this movement contends? Second, does the neostatist paradigm remedy these defects and provide a superior analytical model? Third, regardless of the substantive merits of these arguments, are there heuristic benefits flowing from this critique of the literature? Examination of the evidence leads to a rejection of the first two criticisms. The answer to the third question is more complex. There is merit to the argument that administrative and institutional history has been neglected in the political science of the last decades. This is hardly a "paradigmatic shift"; and it has been purchased at the exorbitant price of encouraging a generation of graduate students to reject their professional history and to engage in vague conceptualization.
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 21, Heft 4, S. 828-842
"Miss Cooper: Loneliness is a terrible thing don't you agree?Anne: Yes, I do agree. A terrible thing ….Miss Meacham: She's not an 'alone' type.Miss Cooper: Is any type an 'alone' type, Miss Meacham … ?"(From Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables, (1955, 78, 92)In Separate Tables, the hit of the 1955 New York theatrical season, the Irish playwright, Terence Rattigan, used the metaphor of solitary diners in a second-rate residential hotel in Cornwall to convey the loneliness of the human condition. It may be a bit far fetched to use this metaphor to describe the condition of political science in the 1980s. But in some sense the various schools and sects of political science now sit at separate tables, each with its own conception of proper political science, but each protecting some secret island of vulnerability.It was not always so. If we recall the state of the profession a quarter of a century ago, let us say in the early 1960s, David Easton's (1953) and David Truman's (1955) scoldings of the profession for its backwardness among the social science disciplines, had been taken to heart by a substantial and productive cadre of young political scientists. In 1961 Robert Dahl wrote his Epitaph for a Monument to a Successful Protest reflecting the sure confidence of a successful movement, whose leaders were rapidly becoming the most visible figures in the profession. Neither Dahl nor Heinz Eulau, whose Behavioral Persuasion appeared in 1963 made exaggerated or exclusive claims for the new political science.
In: American political science review, Band 82, Heft 3, S. 853, 875
ISSN: 0003-0554
In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift: PVS : German political science quarterly, Band 28, Heft Sh. 18, S. 27-38
ISSN: 0032-3470
In dem Beitrag wird die Politische-Kultur-Forschung der BRD vorgestellt. Der Einfluß der amerikanischen Sozialwissenschaft wird aufgezeigt. Anhand der theoretischen Entwicklung der Politischen-Kultur-Forschung in den 50er und 60er Jahren werden die aktuellen Entwicklungstendenzen eingeschätzt und bewertet. Über die Art der Theorie, ihren Erklärungswert und ihren Ort im Gefüge der Politikwissenschaft wird nachgedacht. Die verschiedenen Aspekte des Politischen-Kultur-Konzeptes werden skizziert. Vier verschiedene Kritik-Ansätze an dieser Konzeption werden in ihren Argumentationslinien dargestellt, um dann Dauerhaftigkeit und Wandel der Politischen Kultur zu untersuchen. Dazu werden die drei Bereiche der Politischen-Kultur-Forschung beschrieben, die sich regional festschreiben: Politische Kultur (1) in den fortgeschrittenen Industrieländern, (2) in den kommunistischen Gesellschaften, (3) als politische, ökonomische und religiöse Kultur bei der Modernisierung asiatischer Länder. Auf der Grundlage der Überlegungen wird dann eine Bilanz zum gegenwärtigen Stand der politischen Kultur-Forschung gezogen. Abschließend wird ein systematischer Ansatz der Politischen-Kultur-Forschung vorgestellt, der in der Struktur und den Leistungen des politischen Systems verankert ist. (KW)
In: Politische Kultur in Deutschland; Politische Vierteljahresschrift Sonderheft, S. 27-38
In: Comparative politics, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 127
ISSN: 2151-6227
In: The American People and Science Policy, S. xv-xvi
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 245-260
ISSN: 0043-8871
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In: International political science review: the journal of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) = Revue internationale de science politique, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 173-181
ISSN: 1460-373X
Because political evaluation is both inescapable and desirable, it is too important to be left to partial and unexamined criteria. Even the most self-conscious studies of political performance have tended to rely on a limited and incomplete range of standards. We are arguing here for a more comprehensive typology of "political goods," with which both the standards and the performance of specific regimes and ideologies can be compared. Although we cannot, of course, deal with every cultural and structural nuance that may itself be valued, we can attempt to consider explicitly classes of goods that are associated with each of the different levels of analysis of the political system.
In: Soviet studies, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 302-320
In: Little, Brown series in comparative politics