The British study of politics in the twentieth century
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The British study of politics in the twentieth century
Oxford University Press, c1999
Available at / 19 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Includes index
Published in association with the British Academy
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The British study of politics throughout the twentieth century is charted and interpreted for the first time by a team of major scholars brought together on the initiative of the Political Studies section of the British Academy. The authors trace the growing professionalism of political science in the second half of the century, while not neglecting significant contributions to the field by, for example, historians, philosophers, politicians, and journalists. Specialists in the various branches of the discipline provide a critical appraisal of work in areas where British scholarship has been important. Their chapters go beyond disciplinary history to provide interpretations of the interplay between the tumultuous political developments of the century and the framework of analysis for interpreting political life. The distinctive strength of political theory and the history of political thought in British universities is examined, and attention is paid to the influential analyses of liberal democratic and administrative institutions, both comparatively and in Britain, as well as to the study of political parties, interests, elections, and public opinion.
The innovative contribution of British authors to analyses of nationalism, totalitarianism and authoritarianism is dissected and an influential British approach to the study of international relations scrutinized. Broad-ranging introductory and concluding chapters provide overviews of the development of Politics as an academic discipline in Britain and assess past trends and future prospects.
Table of Contents
- British Approaches to Politics: the Dawn of a Self-Deprecating Discipline
- Contextual and Non-Contextual Histories of Political Thought
- Visions of Freedom: the Response to Totalitarianism
- The Critique of Individualism
- Pluralism, Revenant or Recessive?
- Comparative Politics
- Pressure Groups and Parties: A 'Haze of Common Knowledge' or the Empirical Advance of the Discipline?
- Electoral Systems, Elections and Public Opinion
- The Analysis of British Political Institutions
- British Public Administration, Dodo, Phoenix or Chameleon?
- Nations and Nationalism in British Political Studies
- The Study of Totalitarianism and Authoritarianism
- A British School of International Relations
- The Study of Politics as a Vocation
by "Nielsen BookData"
