Social Sciences and Modern States: National Experiences and Theoretical Crossroads. (book reviews)

The doctoral training of most American political scientists attends scarcely at all to the history of the discipline. Older introductory courses on the history, scope, and methods of political science have yielded to more extensive training in research design, statistics, math, and the analysis of arguments. As a result, fewer and fewer political scientists in the United States know much about their predecessors. The aims and understandings, successes and failures, and even the names of these forerunners become lost to a strangely present-minded discipline.

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