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The British Study of Politics in the Twentieth Century. - Review - book review
Contemporary Review, August, 2000
Jack Hayward, Brian Barry and Archie Brown, editors. Oxford University Press. [pound]29.95. 511 pages. ISBN 0-19-726206-6. This book has been published by O.U.P. for the British Academy and is the brain-child of Professor Jack Hayward. Its aim is to present 'a study of the British contribution to the development of political science in the twentieth century' and all but one contributor is a British subject.
(The articles also show how enriched British academic life has been by the flow of exiles from first Nazi and then from Communist oppression in Europe.) There are fourteen articles ranging across the whole spectrum of political life. After an opening article by Prof Hayward in which he traces the growing study of politics there are articles on political thought, the response to totalitarianism, the nature of individualism, the plural society, comparative politics, pressure groups, electoral systems, British political institutions, the British civil s ervice and public administration, the role of nationalism in British political studies, the study of totalitarianism and authoritarianism as well as international relations and, finally, one on the study of politics as a vocation. These articles will answer affirmatively the question posed by Professor Hayward: how far have British academics created a peculiarly British study of politics. The answer will be self-evident.
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