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A History of Political Science
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The history of political science is less one of scholars testing and improving theories by reference to data than of their appropriating and transforming ideas, often obscuring or obliterating former meanings, to serve new purposes in shifting political contexts as mentioned in this paper .Abstract:
This Element denaturalises political science, stressing the contestability and contingency of ideas, traditions, subfields, and even the discipline itself. The history of political science is less one of scholars testing and improving theories by reference to data than of their appropriating and transforming ideas, often obscuring or obliterating former meanings, to serve new purposes in shifting political contexts. Political science arose in the late nineteenth century as part of a wider modernism that replaced earlier developmental narratives with more formal explanations. It changed as some scholars yoked together behavioural topics, quantitative techniques, and positivist theory, and as other scholars rejected their doing so. Subfields such as International Relations remained semi-detached and focused on policy as much as theory. Furthermore, the shifting fashions within political science – modernism, behaviouralism, realism, neoliberalism, the new institutionalism – have informed the policies by which governments have tried to tame contingency and govern people. read more
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Historians' Virtues
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A History of Political Science
TL;DR: The history of political science is less one of scholars testing and improving theories by reference to data than of their appropriating and transforming ideas, often obscuring or obliterating former meanings, to serve new purposes in shifting political contexts as mentioned in this paper .
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Confronting Evil in History
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Progress and the Scale of History
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The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age
TL;DR: The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age as mentioned in this paper equips historians to be self-conscious practitioners by making these shifts explicit and exploring their long-term impact on their longterm impact.
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Institutional Arrangements and Equilibrium in Multidimensional Voting Models
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The road from Mont Pèlerin : the making of the neoliberal thought collective
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TL;DR: The Road from Mont Pelerin this paper is a seminal work in the history of economic thought, focusing on the formation and evolution of modern neoliberalism in the early 1970s.