Foundations and American Political Science: The Transformation of a Discipline, 1945-1970 - Couverture souple

Hauptmann, Emily

 
9780700633777: Foundations and American Political Science: The Transformation of a Discipline, 1945-1970
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0700633774 ISBN 13 : 9780700633777
Editeur : University Press of Kansas, 2022

Synopsis

Foundations in the United States have long exerted considerable power over education and scholarly production. Although today's titans of philanthropy proclaim more loudly their desire to transform schools and universities than did some of their predecessors, philanthropic programs designed to reshape educational institutions are at least a century old. In Foundations and American Political Science, Emily Hauptmann focuses on the postwar Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller programs that reshaped political science. She shows how significant changes in the methods and research interests of postwar political scientists began as responses to the priorities set by their philanthropic patrons.

Informed by years of research in foundation and university archives, Foundations and American Political Science follows the course of several streams of private philanthropic money as they wended their way through public universities and political science departments in the postwar period. The programs launched by the Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller philanthropies as well as their reception at the universities of California and Michigan steered political scientists towards particular problems as well as particular ways of studying them. The rise of statistical analyses of survey data, the decline of public administration, and persistent conflicts over the discipline's purpose and the best methods for understanding politics, Hauptmann argues, all had their roots in the ways that postwar universities responded to foundations' programs. Additionally, the new emphasis universities placed on sponsored research sparked sharp disputes among political scientists over what should count as legitimate knowledge about politics and what the ultimate purpose of the discipline should be.

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À propos de l?auteur

Emily Hauptmann is professor of political science at Western Michigan University.

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Éditeur
University Press of Kansas
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0700633774
ISBN 13 
9780700633777
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
280
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