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Abstract

British political science has a dominant self-image based on a narrative of professionalisation. This narrative tells how a Whig inheritance evolved into a more mature, largely autonomous, professional, and suitably cautious discipline. Perhaps paradoxically it also contrasts the restraint of the British discipline with the excessive scientism and professionalism of its American counterpart. It concludes with a portrait of a professional discipline producing what we might think of as modernist empiricist knowledge, that is, knowledge reached through atomisation, comparison, classification, and even quantification.

Item Type:	Book Section
Authors/Creators:	Rhodes, R A W and Bevir, M
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
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