A critique of political science : a history of the Caucus for a New Political Science / Clyde W. Barrow.

Author/creator Barrow, Clyde W. author
Other author Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
Format Book
PublicationAnn Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, 2026.
Copyright Date©2026
Descriptionxvi, 435 pages illustrations 24 cm
Subjects
Caucus for a New Political Science (U.S.)--History.
American Political Science Association--History.
Political science--United States. --History.
Political scientists--Professional relationships. --United States.

Physical mediumillustrations.
Contents Disciplinary history and the caucus for a new political science -- Political science: discipline, profession, and ideology in the 1960s -- Intellectual origins of new political science, 1953-1967 -- Political origins of new political science, 1967-1969 -- The west coast and the radicals, 1970-1974 -- The caucus left turn, 1974-1979 -- From organizational revolt to organized section, 1979-1991 -- The period of quiet institutionalization, 1992-2021 -- The future of critical political science.
Abstract The Caucus for a New Political Science (CNPS) was created in 1967, when several hundred dissident political scientists walked out of the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) to protest the Association's refusal to take an official position against the Vietnam War. The CNPS soon expanded its mission to challenge the APSA's behavioral and pluralist orthodoxy, protest a lack of democratic procedure and transparency in the organization, and oppose ties between the leadership and government agencies involved in covert activities. It remains unique among the more than 50 Organized Sections of APSA as the only section that defines itself ideologically and politically, rather than by research topic, methodology, subfield, or identity status. A Critique of Political Science distinguishes between the discipline of political science (methods and concepts) and the profession of political science (persons and institutions) to move disciplinary history beyond its current form as intellectual history toward a politics of political science. The book argues that understanding the development of a discipline requires the same type of theoretical analysis that political scientists apply to other political institutions. By examining universities and professional associations as political institutions, this approach puts political struggles and ideological conflict at the very core of disciplinary history. In reviewing 50 years of debate, controversy, and in-fighting in the political science profession, the book serves as a critique of the profession and the discipline of political science, which remains woefully disengaged from the concerns of ordinary citizens, particularly the working class and the poor throughout the world.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 373-418) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Barrow, Clyde W. A critique of political science Ann Arbor [Michigan]: University of Michigan Press, 2026 9780472905812
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