Restoring Politics to Political History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4898299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul F Bourke, Donald A Debats |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 459 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/204141 |
| OpenAlex | W2330439619 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The phrase restoring politics to political threatens to become the slogan for a new scholarly campaign. Kousser's recent elaboration of the theme is the most challenging, offering the author's usual theoretical and methodological inventiveness in combination with a sweeping indictment of recent work. Before the slogan gathers too many adherents, however, problems about the work of restoration need airing.' The urge to restore politics to political history arises from uneasiness that twenty years of studying mass electoral behavior has put at risk the autonomy of political history, threatening, as Kousser has it, to turn political history into a mere branch of social history. Several other scholars are also concerned that studies of the social and cultural linkages within the mass electorate in relation to partisanship have rendered something called politics epiphenomenal. The implication is that there is a perennially separable category of human agency called politics which is not reducible to the social and cultural attributes of those who
Environmental ethics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2017 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |