The Dutch Political Science Association 1950–2000

Dutch political science claims early roots. In 1613 Daniel Heinsius became Professor of Politics at Leiden University. The various sciences bearing a relation to the state were then regarded as one body of ‘scientia politica'. During the nineteenth century, however, the juridicallegalistic point of view began to predominate in the theory of the state, and between roughly 1840 and the end of the Second World War, Dutch universities almost completely neglected political science proper. Immediately after the war, the University of Amsterdam established a new Faculty of Political and Social Sciences. Its two founding fathers were both historians but as early as the 1930s one of them, Jan Romein, had become well acquainted with American political science. The holders of the first three chairs in political science in the Netherlands, established between 1948 and 1953, had themselves studied law. It was only in 1963, with the appointment of Hans Daudt in Amsterdam, that the first professor of political science who had himself studied political science was appointed

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