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The British study of politics in the twentieth century

The distinctive strength of political science in Britain is revealed in this guide to modern British scholarship in the field. As well as charting the development of the discipline, the essays examine the contributions to the study of nationalism, totalitarianism and authoritarianism and the influential British approach to international relations.
Print Book, English, 2003
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003
History
528 pages ; 24 cm
9780197262948, 0197262945
52145496
British Approaches to Politics: the Dawn of a Self-Deprecating Discipline ; Contextual and Non-Contextual Histories of Political Thought ; Visions of Freedom: the Response to Totalitarianism ; The Critique of Individualism ; Pluralism, Revenant or Recessive? ; Comparative Politics ; Pressure Groups and Parties: A 'Haze of Common Knowledge' or the Empirical Advance of the Discipline? ; Electoral Systems, Elections and Public Opinion ; The Analysis of British Political Institutions ; British Public Administration, Dodo, Phoenix or Chameleon? ; Nations and Nationalism in British Political Studies ; The Study of Totalitarianism and Authoritarianism ; A British School of International Relations ; The Study of Politics as a Vocation
Originally published: 1999