Disenchanted realists: political science and the American crisis

Contents

Foreword by Bruce Miroff and Stephen Skowronek

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

Institutionalists and Radical Democrats

The Third Tradition: Beyond Mechanics and Spontaneity

Modernism as Channeled Flux

Sovereignty and the State

Citizenship and Legitimacy

Civic Education

The Search for Reform Politics

2. The Impulse toward a Science of Politics, 1880-1900

The Attack on Amateurs

The Profession Builders

The Strange Populism of the Founder of American Sociology

The Literary Politician and the Administrative EliteThe American Crisis Formulated

3. Science as Muckraking: The Cult of Realism in the Progressive Era

Arthur F. Bentley: The Objective Science of Middle-Class Revolution

The Fashioning of Scientific Politics

Progressive Science as Critical Unmasking

Between Science and Sentiment: The Chastened Optimism of Charles Austin Beard

The Paradox of Realism

Realism versus Reform: Beard's Confrontation with the American Political Tradition

The Return to Values

The Demise of Fact Gathering

4. Reform and Disillusionment in the New DealCharles E. Merriam and the Crisis of American Democracy

Behavioral Political Science and the Crisis of American Democracy

The Making of a Rational Public

Charles E. Merriam and the New Deal

Reform versus Science

The Reformer as Therapist: Harold D. Lasswell

The Early Works

The Eclipse of Reform Science: Conclusions

5. The Behavioral Era

V. O. and the Third Tradition

Behavioralism as Pure Science

Empirical Democratic Theory

Legitimacy, Power, and the Political Subculture

The Behavioralism of David TrumanFrom Reformism to Behavioralism

Pluralist Democracy

The Seeds of the Whirlwind

Reality Destroys Realism

6. The Eclipse of Unity

Postbehavioralism and the Search for a New Politics

Theodore J. Lowi and the Science of Phantom Reform

The Critical Pessimism of Walter Dean Burnham

The Irony of Postbehavioralism

7. Conclusion: The End of the Third Tradition

Afterword: A Science of Politics, A Science for Politics by James Farr

Notes

Bibliography

Index