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The History of Political Science

Political Studies Review, 2005
The history of political science serves as a context within which we make sense of the nature and role of our discipline. Narratives about the past development of British and American political science help to frame debates, choices, and identities within the contemporary discipline in Britain.
Robert Adcock, Mark Bevir
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Prediction, History, and Political Science

2023
Abstract To succeed, political science usually requires either prediction or contextual historical work. Both of these methods favor explanations that are narrow-scope, applying to only one or a few cases. Because of the difficulty of prediction, the main focus of political science should often be contextual historical work.
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Islamology, political science and history

Australian Outlook, 1963
ARABIC THOUGHT IN THE LIBERAL AGE 1798–1939. Albert Hourani. O.U.P., 1962. THE INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS OF EGYPTIAN NATIONALISM, J. M. Ahmed. O.U.P., 1960. AHMADIYYAH (A Study in Contemporary Islam on the West African Coast). Humphrey J. Fisher. O.U.P., 1963.
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History and Political Science Instruction

Improving College and University Teaching, 1963
(1963). History and Political Science Instruction. Improving College and University Teaching: Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 242-249.
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History and Discipline in Political Science

American Political Science Review, 1988
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.
John S. Dryzek, Stephen T. Leonard
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A History of Political Science

2022
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 ...
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The History of Political Science

American Journal of Political Science, 1988
Political science is once again rediscovering its past and retelling its history. In the last few years several works have brought an end to an era when our discipline's historical reflections were limited to the rather brief presidential addresses of the American Political Science Association, to the even briefer literature reviews that prefaced ...
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HbA1c standardisation: history, science and politics.

The Clinical biochemist. Reviews, 2007
Significant analytical improvements have occurred since glycated haemoglobin (GHb), measured as total HbA(1), was first used in routine clinical laboratories around 1977. Following the publication of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) study in 1993 the issue of international standardisation became an important objective for scientists ...
W. G. John, A. Mosca, C. Weykamp, I. Goodall   +3 more
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Can Political Science History be Neutral?

American Political Science Review, 1990
In the December 1988 issue of thisReview, John Dryzek and Stephen Leonard argued the need for “context-sensitive” histories of the discipline of political science. In their view, disciplinary history must guide practical inquiry if it is to be most useful.
James Farr, John Gunnell, Raymond Seidelman, John S. Dryzek, Stephen T. Leonard   +4 more
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