Title: Liberalism and the emergence of American political science : a transatlantic tale /
Authors: Adcock, Robert,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Liberalism United States History; Political science United States History; Political culture United States History; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.; Political culture United States History
Abstract: "This book situates the origins of American political science in relation to the transatlantic history of liberalism. In a corrective to earlier accounts, it argues that, as political science took shape in the nineteenth century American academy, it did more than express a pre-existing American liberalism. The pioneers of American political science participated in transatlantic networks of intellectual and political elites that connected them directly to the vicissitudes of liberalism in Europe. The book shows how these figures adapted multiple contemporary European liberal arguments to speak to particular challenges of mass democratic politics and large-scale industry as they developed in America. Political science's pioneers in the American academy were thus active agents of the Americanization of liberalism.^
Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction. American Political Science and Liberalism in Transatlantic Perspective -- Part One: From Europe to America -- Chapter One. The Political in Political Science: The Liberal Debate about Democracy -- Chapter Two. The Science in Political Science: The Historicist Debate about Method -- Chapter Three. Democratized Classical Liberalism in the Antebellum American College: The Émigré Political Science of Francis Lieber -- Part Two: Wide Political Science and Liberalism in the Gilded Age -- Chapter Four. Political Science and Political Economy in the Age of Academic Reform: Andrew Dickson White and William Graham Sumner -- Chapter Five. Historical and Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University: Historicist Science, Liberalism, and the Founding of National Associations -- Part Three: Late Century Liberalisms and the New Political Science -- Chapter Six. Disenchanted Classical Liberalism as a Political Vision: William Graham Sumner and A. Lawrence Lowell -- Chapter Seven. Progressive Liberalism as a Political Vision: Woodrow Wilson's Political Science -- Chapter Eight. The Transatlantic Study of Modern Political Systems: The New Political Science of James Bryce, A. Lawrence Lowell, and Frank Goodnow -- Conclusion. The Americanization of Political Science and the Americanization of "Liberalism".