Masters of Political Science by Donatella Campus & Gianfranco Pasquino ISBN 9780955820335, 0955820332 instant download

Masters of Political Science by Donatella Campus & Gianfranco Pasquino ISBN 9780955820335, 0955820332 instant download

For a while now, political science as a discipline has been big enough (in terms
of the number of academics) and analytically mature enough to justify
reflections on and reviews of its achievements. In fact, there is no lack of
general handbooks, dictionaries and 'state of the art' assessments (as well as
'reflective' journals such as the ECPR's own European Political Science),
which are useful in helping us to understand and evaluate where we currently are
and where we might still need to go. The focus of these texts, however, is on
particular concepts, themes, research areas, institutions or behaviour. What
they rarely do is indulge in a critical reflection on the political scientists
themselves, especially those who are commonly accepted as having made the most
significant contributions to the growth of their discipline. This book fills an
important gap in the growing reflective literature on the political science
discipline: it consists of a series of 'objective' profiles of the 'Masters of
Political Science', written by political scientists who have read and studied
their work and who are therefore in a position to evaluate the nature of their
contributions. The Masters:Robert Dahl, Anthony Downs, David
Easton, S. E. Finer, Samuel P. Huntington, Juan J. Linz, Seymour Martin Lipset,
Giovanni Sartori, Sidney Verba, Aaron Wildavsky, Hans Morgenthau