A history of political science (Record no. 693327)
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| fixed length control field | 01800cam a22002058i 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781009044295 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 320.09 |
| Edition number | 23/eng/20220824 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Bevir, Mark, |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A history of political science |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Mark Bevir. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | United Kingdom |
| Name of publisher | Cambridge |
| Year of publication | 2022 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 72 |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Cambridge elements. Elements in historical theory and practice |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction -- The rise of political science -- Modernist moments -- Thinking globally -- Neoliberalism and after -- The revenge of history. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "This Element denaturalizes 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 focussed 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"-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Political science |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Political science |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Political science |
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| Koha item type | Book |
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