Forging a discipline : a critical assessment of Oxford's development of the study of politics and international relations in comparative perspective / edited by Christopher Hood, Desmond King, and Gillian Peele.
Introduction / the editors -- A tale of three cities: the early years of political science in Oxford, London, and Manchester / Rodney Barker -- Warden Anson, All Souls College, and the curious creation of the Gladstone Chair of Political Theory and Institutions at Oxford, c.1908-1912 / S. J. D. Green -- The role of specialist graduate colleges in disciplinary development / Laurence Whitehead -- Paradigms lost: how Oxford escaped the paradigm wars of the 1960s and 70s / Alan Ryan -- Political science and institution building: Oxford in comparative perspective / Robert E. Goodin -- Elections / John Curtice -- Constitutionalism since Dicey / Iain McLean -- Political theory, philosophy, and the social sciences: five Chichele professors / David Miller -- The academic normalization of international relations at Oxford, 1920-2012: structures transcended / Martin Ceadel -- The study of war at Oxford 1909-2009 / Hew Strachan -- Beyond Zanzibar: the road to comparative inductive institutionalism / Jack Hayward -- The study of communist and post-communist politics / Archie Brown and Stephen Whitefield -- Conclusion: what can be learned from the Oxford politics story? / the editors.
Summary:
A broad-ranging analysis and critique of the distinctive contribution of the University of Oxford to the scholarly study of politics over the last 100 years.
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