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1. Introduction to Part III Policy Analysis and the Paradox of Academic and Public Discourse.

Author

Gunnell, John G.

Subjects
POLICY sciences, POLICY analysis, POLITICAL science, SOCIAL sciences, POLITICAL culture
Abstract

This section comments on several articles on policy analysis. Although the themes of each of the articles points toward the practical engagement of social science and the realization of democracy, they deal neither with the root issue of the location of the social sciences in the American university and entailed immanent and contextual constraints, nor with the dilemma of whether the authority of knowledge is compatible with democratic authority. The relationship between the philosophy of science and the practice of science can be reduced to thinking about, or even undertaking, new ways of doing the philosophy of science. The problem is relational. It requires facing up both to the issue of whether policy analysis within the contemporary university can escape the constraints imposed by the academy and the issue of the compatibility of academic practice with political culture.

Published
1992

2. TIME AND INTERPRETATION: UNDERSTANDING CONCEPTS AND CONCEPTUAL CHANGE.

Author

Gunnell, John G.

Abstract

The issue of the nature of concepts and the problem of understanding conceptual change have become increasingly important in methodological discussions of the study of the history of political thought as well as in substantive research. The treatment of these matters, however, remains inadequate. This is in part a consequence of metatheoretical agendas that have diverted attention away from a theoretical analysis of concepts and apposite issues such as the relationship between mental predicates, words and concepts. But the failure to confront these matters has also been the result of the pervasive emphasis on contextual analysis in historical interpretation. One of the methodological implications of a more thorough theoretical account of concepts is a greater concern with internal history and conceptual genealogy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
1998

3. the european geneses of american political science

Author

Gunnell, John G

Abstract

Although American political science is, as Bernard Crick emphasised, in many respects a distinctly American science of politics, its evolution has been deeply informed by European ideas. This was quite obviously the case during the nineteenth century, when the German concept of the state dominated the discourse of the field, as well as in the early part of the twentieth century, when English scholars made significant contributions to the theory of democratic pluralism. By the middle of the century, German émigrés had contributed to a fundamental transformation in political theory which challenged the mainstream vision of political enquiry; but what is less well understood is the extent to which the reaction to this challenge in behavioural political science was also based on ideas that were the product of the European exodus.

Published
2006
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6. Book reviews.

Author

Gunnell, John G.

Abstract

Reviews the book `Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss: German Emigrs and American Political thought after World War ll,' edited by Peter Graf Kielmansegg, Horst Mewes and Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt.

Published
1996

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