American Political Science before the Mirror: What Our Journals Reveal about the Profession

The nature and direction of American political science has been much discussed in recent years, and there can be little doubt that a great deal of the dialogue is carried on in the shadow of Thomas S. Kuhn and his many critics and allies. Although Kuhn applied his analysis of scientific activity to...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Journal of politics 1976-11, Vol.38 (4), p.895-917
Main Authors: Baum, William C., Griffiths, G. N., Matthews, Robert, Scherruble, Daniel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic journals
Bibliographic citations
Discipline/Disciplines
Half lives
Journal/Journals
Literary history
Literature
Orientation/Orientations
Periodicals
Physics
Poetry
Political philosophy
Political science
Profession/Professions/ Professional/ Professionals/ Professionalism/ Professionalized
Social science/Social sciences/Social scientific
Social sciences
United States/US
Citations: Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The nature and direction of American political science has been much discussed in recent years, and there can be little doubt that a great deal of the dialogue is carried on in the shadow of Thomas S. Kuhn and his many critics and allies. Although Kuhn applied his analysis of scientific activity to the physical sciences, terms such as “paradigm,” “preparadigm,” “normal science,” and “revolution” have rapidly swept through the social sciences and are conspicuously evident in the literature of political science during the past decade.
ISSN:0022-3816
1468-2508
DOI:10.2307/2129500