The paper offers a preliminary map of the dialogue between history and political studies in three different stages: it first examines the birth of political science in the Anglo-Saxon world and highlights that, precisely in the linguistic context out of which the two aforementioned breakthroughs were born, the discipline emerged in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a derivation from history; in the second part, it analyses the distancing between political science and history that occurred in the decades when behavioralism and the economic approach gained ground, and highlights the presence of scholars and trends that continued to maintain open the dialogue with history; and in the third part, it analyses the renewal of this dialogue that has occurred in the last thirty years, especially through the rise of new institutionalism and historical institutionalism.
In Search of Dialogue with History. A Political Science Research Perspective
Alfredo Ferrara
2023-01-01
Abstract
The paper offers a preliminary map of the dialogue between history and political studies in three different stages: it first examines the birth of political science in the Anglo-Saxon world and highlights that, precisely in the linguistic context out of which the two aforementioned breakthroughs were born, the discipline emerged in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a derivation from history; in the second part, it analyses the distancing between political science and history that occurred in the decades when behavioralism and the economic approach gained ground, and highlights the presence of scholars and trends that continued to maintain open the dialogue with history; and in the third part, it analyses the renewal of this dialogue that has occurred in the last thirty years, especially through the rise of new institutionalism and historical institutionalism.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
