This authoritative and accessible book is the first scholarly account and interpretation of the development of the study of politics in Britain in the twentieth century. A team of well-known specialists examines the growing professionalization of political science in the second half of the century, including the significant contributions of historians, philosophers, lawyers, political practitioners, and journalists.
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Jack Hayward is at University of Oxford. Brian Barry is at London School of Economics and Political Science.
`Very informative collection... extremely useful for students.. who want to know which of the various disciplines it might just be worth committing themselves to.'
David Runciman, TLS September 22 2000
`the authors provide a critical appraisal of writings in those areas where British scholarship has been important.'
M. Curtis, Choice, Sept.2000.
`This book is ... a significant contribution to British intellectual history and will interest academic specialists in British politics and political theory.'
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Anthony H. Birch, Govt. and Opposition.
`an excellent essay by Alan Ryan on anti-individualistic theories.'
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`a comprehensive account of British studies of totalitarian and authoritarian systems by Archie Brown, which I found penetrating and interesting.'
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`the book ... can be recommended to scholars in newly democratized or democratizing societies wanting to expand their areas of enquiry, as well as to professors in related disciplines in British universitites wanting to find out what their colleagues in political studies have been doing.'
Anthony H. Birch, Govt and Opposition.
`an excellent book for insiders, very valuable for young academics, graduate students and final-year undergraduates contemplating graduate work ... an impressive and useful work of scholarship.'
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Andrew Gamble, THES
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