Postscript. Disciplines, canons and publics: the history of ‘the history of political thought’ in comparative perspective

Collini, Stefan; Castiglione, Dario; Hampsher‐Monk, Iain

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“…Similarly, at one point, it looked as if the European influence of neo‐Marxist state theory would be a contender 5 . Instead, it became an example of the “passive pluralism” so common in British political science, which allows new subfields, such as feminism and race, “to establish themselves alongside the existing fields co‐existing in a patterned isolation within the same institutional framework without either genuinely engaging with each other or becoming entirely autonomous” (Collini 2001, 299–300). There was a true heavyweight champion in the ring—the New Public Management (NPM)—and patterned isolation was not its fate; it dominated the 1990s and beyond.…”

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One‐way, Two‐way, or Dead‐end Street: British Influence on the Study of Public Administration in America Since 1945

Rhodes

2011

Public Administration Review

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What intellectual influence, if any, have British public administration scholars had on their American counterparts since World War II? In this article, the author briefly reviews the major areas of theory and research in the British study of publication administration, further identifying important contributions by British scholars in the areas of modernist‐empiricism, the new public management, regulation, policy networks and governance, and interpretive theory. Although there is a discernible American influence on British public administration, there is little British impact on U.S. public administration; nowadays it is a one‐way street. Increasingly, British scholars are involved in a growing community of European public administration scholars with whom they share active, two‐way connections. Recent European developments suggest that American and European public administration academics are growing further apart. Due to the immense strength of modernist‐empiricism throughout American universities, plus the interpretive turn to a European epistemology of “blurred genres,” these twin, traditionally self‐referential, communities seem to be parting company with an attendant danger that future intellectual engagement may be a dead end.

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One‐way, Two‐way, or Dead‐end Street: British Influence on the Study of Public Administration in America Since 1945

Rhodes

2011

Public Administration Review

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“…Indeed, if one is interested in the historical development of disciplines, one is interested in an aspect or episode of the intellectual and institutional history of academic disciplines within a period. For some suggestions on this score, see Collini (2001). 7.…”

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Beyond Reflexivity? On the Enactments of Sociology in India

Hegde¹

2011

Sociological Bulletin

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“…Stefan Collini has noted that “there is no single enterprise or entity corresponding to what in English‐speaking countries has most often been called ‘the history of political thought’,” and that in order to understand this genre, it is necessary to look at particular “ intellectual and academic cultures.” More specifically, he suggested that “if one is interested in the historical development of the ‘history of political thought,’ one is interested in an aspect or episode of the intellectual and institutional history of academic disciplines” (2001, 281, 283). If we think of the study of the history of political thought generically as a “form of discourse” conducted in diverse ways and settings by university scholars, it is difficult not to conceive it as a relatively universal endeavor, but if we think of it as a self‐ascribed and institutionally differentiated “academic discipline,” we are talking about a practice that was largely a nineteenth‐century American invention.…”

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Dislocated Rhetoric: The Anomaly of Political Theory

Gunnell

2006

The Journal of Politics

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Although the estranged relationship between mainstream political science and much of the subfield of political theory has been properly attributed to developments during the last half of the twentieth century, the roots of this alienation are historically deeper. Many of the conversations of political theory are the progeny of a discursive form that attended the birth of modern social science. This genre was a legitimating rhetoric situated in the interstices of social science, philosophy, and politics. The study of the history of political thought originated as such a rhetoric, and it constitutes a paradigm case for examining the extent to which such a discourse can be transformed into a practice of knowledge. This field has succeeded to a greater extent than certain other elements of political theory which, transfixed by the tension between their practical aspirations and academic context, have become anomalous appendages to the social scientific study of politics.

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Postscript. Disciplines, canons and publics: the history of ‘the history of political thought’ in comparative perspective

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One‐way, Two‐way, or Dead‐end Street: British Influence on the Study of Public Administration in America Since 1945

One‐way, Two‐way, or Dead‐end Street: British Influence on the Study of Public Administration in America Since 1945

Beyond Reflexivity? On the Enactments of Sociology in India

Dislocated Rhetoric: The Anomaly of Political Theory

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