The State in Political Science
How We Became What We Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3565205 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Theodore J Lowi (Cornell University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-7 |
| Publication date | 1992-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1964011 |
| OpenAlex | W2318322432 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 82 |
| References cited | 20 |
American political science is a product of the American state. There are political reasons why particular subdisciplines became hegemonic with the emergence of the "Second Republic" after World War II. The three hegemonic subdisciplines of our time are public opinion, public policy, and public choice. Each is a case study of consonance with the thought-ways and methods of a modern bureaucratized government committed to scientific decision making. Following Leviathan too closely results in three principal consequences: (1) failure to catch and evaluate the replacement of law by economics as the language of the state, (2) the loss of passion in political science discourse, and (3) the failure of political science to appreciate the significance of ideological sea changes accompanying regime changes
Government (linguistics · Hegemony · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Sociology · State (computer science · Law · Philosophy · Policy Transfer and Learning · Political Science Research and Education · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research
As técnicas de avaliação da eficiência, eficácia e efetividade na gestão pública e sua relevância para o desenvolvimento social e das ações públicas
Whither Intellectual Diversity in American Political Science? The Case of Apsa and Organized Sections
Public Administration and Political Science
The Non‐Politics of Monetary Policy
The Hegemony of Growth
The Coevolution of American Political Science and the American Political Science Review
Publishing Trends in Political Science
The Process of Government and the Governmental Process
Area Studies/Asian Studies
Being undisciplined. On Your Marx
Political Science/Political Theory
Area Studies/Asian Studies
Anthropology
Philosophy and Critical Realism
Philosophy and Standpoint Theory
Sociology
Sociology and Economics
To Explain Political Processes
Politics of education at the federal level
American Perspectives and Blind Spots on World Politics
Political Science in Italian Universities
Looking Back to Move Forward
European Political Science versus the Pandemic
Lamarckian with a vengeance
Katrina and Colonialism
Contesting the Legal Constitution
What's Old Is New Again
Democracy, Dictatorship, and the Making of Modern Political Science
Pacific economic cooperation and Australia
The interaction of post-Sovietology and comparative politics
The relevance of Bentley for group theory
Economic cooperation
A model of sequential effects in common pool resource dilemmas
Political immunology
Critical Political Science from the Age of Nixon to the Epoch of Trump
The failure of market failure
Ethics and the Chimera of Professionalism
The Coevolution of American Political Science and the American Political Science Review
The politics of education
Rational choice theory and the politics of education
The “Bourgeois” Dimension
Public choice and political science
Competition and Local Government
Speaking what truth to whom? The uneasy relationship between practitioner and academic knowledge in public administration
Political Science as a Dependent Variable
Lowi's Critique of Political Science
American Democracy From a European Perspective
The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders
One Health Environmentalism
État, administration et politiques publiques
La ciencia política en Brasil
Public Administration, Science, and Risk Assessment
A politização em condições politicistas
For a Ruthless Criticism of U.S. Politics
It May be Social, But Why is it Capital? The Social Construction of Social Capital and the Politics of Language
Election research as spectacle
Searching for coherence in a fragmented field
Heterogeneity and the Provision of Governance for Common-Pool Resources
International Norm Dynamics and Political Change
What Makes the World Hang Together? Neo-utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist Challenge
Anticipating Uncertainty
Ties That Bind
Paradigm, School, or Sect? Some Reflections on the Status of Rational Choice Theory in Contemporary Scandinavian Political Science
Rational Choice and Political Participation — Evaluating the Debate
American Politics and Political Science in an Era of Growing Racial Diversity and Economic Disparity
What Good Can Political Science Do? From Pluralism to Partnerships
The Discipline as Disciplinary Normalization
Positivism, Scientific Realism and Political Science
Rationality and party activism
Political party activism in Ghana
Diagnosing the Blinding Effects of Trumpism
Statist political science and American Marxism
Reproducing Political Subjects
Is There Really a Scholar-Practitioner Gap? An Institutional Analysis
Gender Representation in the American Politics Canon
What Divides Us? The Image and Organization of Political Science
Including Native American Perspectives in the Political Science Curriculum
Choices for Chinese Political Science
To ‘Fall in Line’ or to ‘Grab
Methodological Madness
Wilson's Failure
The Politics of Studying Politics
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
Politics and the social sciences.
Yankee Leviathan
Building a New American State
The Origins of American Social Science
Ideology and Utopia
The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820–1900
The Sociological Imagination
Disenchanted Realists
The Development of Political Science
Disenchanted Realists
The Creation of the American Republic
Ideology and utopia
The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900
The Study of Administration
| Unique citing works | 82 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,41 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2025 (34) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 80 |