Modern Politics and Administration: A Study of the Creative State. By Marshall E. Dimock, Associate Professor of Public Administration, University of Chicago. American Political Science Series, Lindsay Rogers, General Editor.] (New York: American Book Company. 1937. Pp. xiii, 440. $3.00.) and Constitutional Government and Politics: Nature and Development. By Carl Joachim Friedrich, Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University. (New York: Harper and Brothers. 1937. Pp. xvi, 591. $3.50.)

An interview with Theda Skocpol took place at Harvard University in December 2017. Professor Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. Skocpol is the author of numerous books and articles well known in political science and beyond, including States and Social Revolutions, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers, Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life, and The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism (the latter coauthored with Vanessa Williamson). Skocpol has served as President of the American Political Science Association and the Social Science History Association. Among her honors, she is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences, and she was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. She was interviewed by Eric Schickler, the Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. The following is an edited transcript; a video of the entire interview can be viewed at https://www.annualreviews.org/r/theda-skocpol .

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The Reorganization of Congress. By George B. Galloway et al. A Report of the Committee on Congress of the American Political Science Association (Washington D. C.: Public Affairs Press. 1945. Pp. 89. $1.00.) - Strengthening the Congress. By Robert Heller. Planning Pamphlets, No. 39. January, 1945. (New York: National Planning Association. 1945. Pp. iii, 39. $0.25.)

American Political Science Review ◽

10.2307/1949542 ◽

1945 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 582-584

Author(s):

John A. Perkins

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Political Science ◽

Public Affairs ◽

American Political Science Association ◽

National Planning ◽

American Political Science ◽

Science Association

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Some Contributions of Sociology to Modern Political Theory

American Political Science Review ◽

10.2307/1947011 ◽

1921 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 487-533 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Harry Elmer Barnes

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

New York ◽

Political Theory ◽

Political Science ◽

American Political Science Association ◽

The Subject ◽

American Political Science ◽

Published Paper ◽

Science Association

The fact that a sociologist has been requested to appear upon the program of the American Political Science Association is in itself far more significant than any remarks which may be made upon the subject of the relation of sociology to political theory. It is an admission that some political scientists have at last come to consider sociology of sufficient significance to students of politics to be worthy a brief survey of its contributions to modern political theory.Many of the more liberal and progressive political scientists will doubtless ask themselves if this is not erecting a man of straw, and will inquire if there was ever a time when political scientists were not willing to consider the doctrines of sociology. One or two brief reminders will doubtless allay this suspicion. It was only about twenty years ago that a leading New York daily is reputed to have characterized a distinguished American sociologist as “the fake professor of a pretended science.” About a decade ago an ex-president of this association declared in a twice published paper that sociology was essentially worthless and unscientific and that all of its data had already been dealt with more adequately by the special social sciences.

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Joseph Schumpeter's Two Theories of Democracy. By John Medearis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. 263p. $45.00.

American Political Science Review ◽

10.1017/s0003055402300467 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 96 (4) ◽

pp. 805-806

Author(s):

Jeffrey C. Isaac

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Political Theory ◽

Political Science ◽

Harvard University ◽

World War ◽

Comprehensive Account ◽

The Subject ◽

American Political Science ◽

Empirical Approaches ◽

Theory Of Democracy

Joseph Schumpeter's “elitist” theory of democracy has been the subject of much discussion in political theory. It is commonly considered to have been seminal for the “empirical” approaches to democracy that emerged in American political science after World War II. In this excellent book, John Medearis presents an impressive, careful, and relatively comprehensive account of Schumpeter's writings on the topic of democracy. He argues that Schumpeter has been widely misunderstood, and the richness of his thinking has been wrongly reduced to the chapters of Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942) in which the “elitist” theory is developed.

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