Combining political history and political science : towards a new understanding of the political This book shows how a multidisciplinary approach combining conceptual and methodological tools from political history and political science can help to develop a deeper understanding of contemporary political phenomena including democracy populism war and forced migrations among others. Throughout the eleven chapters the volume brings together senior academics and early career scholars to explore this innovative approach through a broad range of case studies which are not specific to any particular nation but are characteristic of contemporaneity worldwide. Both the international character and the interdisciplinary appeal of this book are reinforced by the fact that the editors and contributors come from different countries and diverse academic traditions. This book is aimed at scholars researchers and postgraduate students interested in interdisciplinary approaches and working on politics and global phenomena in the twentieth and twenty first centuries Introduction : political history and political science : the great potential of an under explored collaboration Carlos Domper Lasús and Giorgia Priorelli Political science and political history : creating a new integral approach Sho Muto Corporatism and dictatorship : between politics and history António Costa Pinto Approaching elections under autocracies from a multidisciplinary political perspective : the case of Iberian dictatorships (1945 1975) Carlos Domper Lasús War : the necessary reassembly of a fragmented research object Luca Baldissara History and political science in forced migration studies : interlacing seemingly incompatible approaches of analysis Giorgia Priorelli Transition to democracy Miguel Ángel Ruiz Carnicer Political science as a modernist project Giovanni Orsina Thinking with history in policy Lorenzo Castellani A never ending crisis : the history of the mass party in the social sciences and history Anne Heyer Studying populism at the intersection of political science and political history : the case of the Boerenpartij in the Netherlands 1950s 1970s Simon Tunderman Léonie de Jonge and Stefan Couperus Teaching communism and post communism in the 21st century Andres Garcia Aravena and Vladimir Tismaneanu.