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Chapter Seven of the book "Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Exchange Since 1880," edited by Robert Adcock, Mark Bevir, and Shannon C. Stimson is presented. It discusses the development of the American political science between the two World Wars with persistent visions of democracy and science. It notes that the theorists vision to provide a new democratic theory with provenance has reflected the values of liberalism in 1930s.

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.