History and Discipline in Political Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3766487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John S Dryzek (0000-0001-6358-0047), Stephen T Leonard (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1245-1260 |
| Publication date | 1988-12-01 |
| 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 | 10.2307/1961758 |
| OpenAlex | W2108312985 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 48 |
| References cited | 38 |
Once sparce and sporadic, histories of political science have proliferated in recent years. We contend that such histories are a necessary feature of the discourse of political science, because there are essential connections between the history, identity, and actual practices of any rationally progressive discipline. In light of the fact that the objects political scientists study are historically and contextually contingent, there has been-and should be-a plurality of histories to match the diversity of approaches in politicalscience. Unfortunately, most histories of political science prove either "Whiggish" and condescending toward the past, or "skeptical" and negative. The consequence has been an inadequate understanding of the relationship between plurality, rationality, and progress in the discipline. Taking into account both the deficiencies and achievements of Whiggish and skeptical accounts, we argue that context-sensitive histories would better serve the rationality and progress of political science
Aesthetics · Context (archaeology · Diversity (politics · Epistemology · Identity (music · Political science · Politics · Rationality · Skepticism · Social science · Sociology · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Science Research and Education · Political Theory and Influence · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
On the History and Historiography of International Relations
Democracy and Discourse in an Integrating Europe and a Globalising World
The Futures of European Capitalism
The Critique of the State
The Coevolution of American Political Science and the American Political Science Review
Histories of Recent Social Science
Um outro olhar
Política y Ciencia Política en América Latina o cuando el poder interfiere en la forma de producir conocimiento en la región. Comentario a Paulo Ravecca, The Politics of Political Science
The Way We Ask for Money… The Emergence and Institutionalization of Grant Writing Practices in Academia
Defining Political Science
The Behavioural Revolution’? A Genealogy of a Concept
Political Theory within and without Political Science
Nationalism and Internationalism in the Study of International Relations, 1900–1939
Evaluating the Social Constructionist Paradigm in Housing Research
Political Science and the American Empire
The Case for Disciplinary History
Part 1 – Revealing the Eurocentric foundations of IPE
A place at the table
The Coevolution of American Political Science and the American Political Science Review
The historiography of academic international relations
Short circuits
Explaining disciplinary heterogeneity in Nordic War/Military Studies
An IR Textbook in the Interwar Period
Building better theoretical frameworks of the European Union's policy process
Political Science on the Cusp
Comportamento ou instituições? A evolução histórica do neo-institucionalismo da ciência política
Opinion Research and the Counter-Revolution in American Political Science
Psychology, Foreign Policy, and International Relations Theory
La teoria dellagovernance
Francis Lieber and the Interpretation of American Political Science
Realizing Theory
Dividing the Domain of Political Science
History and Political Communication
Handbooks and History
Interwar Internationalism, the British Labour Party, and the Historiography of International Relations
Struggling to be Noticed
What Divides Us? The Image and Organization of Political Science
Progress, History and Identity in International Relations Theory
Portrait of the realist as a historian
El conductismo en la ciencia política
On history and authority
Aprendendo com os erros dos outros
The organisational evolution of political science
History and Dissent
Campaigning Alone
Concrete Theory
Can Political Science History be Neutral
The Politics of Studying Politics
Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
Methodological Individualism Reconsidered
Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge
Beyond Objectivism and Relativism
The structure of scientific revolutions
Essays on the Scientific Study of Politics
A history and philosophy of the social sciences
The restructuring of social and political theory
Philosophy in History
The relationship of philosophy to its past
That Noble Science of Politics
The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
Reason, Truth and History
Philosophy and its history
Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
Politics and Paradigms
Methodological Individualism Reconsidered
Disenchanted Realists
More than a Marriage of Convenience
The Tragedy of Political Science
Disenchanted Realists
The American Science of Politics
The American Science of Politics
Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation
The tragedy of political science
The Progress of Political Science
Images of Voting/Visions of Democracy
Epistemological Crises, Dramatic Narrative and the Philosophy of Science
Philosophy in History
Political Theory and Political Science
| Unique citing works | 48 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2025 (36) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 48 |