AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION. Toward a More Responsible Two-party System. A Report of the Committee on Political Parties (supplement to American Political Science Review, September, 1950). Pp. xi, 99. Washington, 1950, and New York: Rinehart & Company, 1950. $1.00

Criticism of trends in political science centers on specific methodologies—quantitative methods or rational choice. However, the more worrisome development is scholasticism—a tendency for research to become overspecialized and ingrown. I define that trend more closely and document its growth through increases in numbers of journals, organized sections in the American Political Science Association, and divisions within the APSA conference. I also code articles published in the American Political Science Review to show a growth in scholastic features in recent decades. The changes affect all fields in political science. Scholasticism serves values of rigor. To restrain it will require reemphasizing relevance to real-world issues and audiences. To do this should also help restore morale among political scientists.

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Reapportionment. Measuring Malapportionment. By Glendon Schubert and Charles Press. American Political Science Review, American Political Science Association, 1726 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, June 1964. 26 pp. Charts, tables. $3.75 per issue

National Civic Review ◽

10.1002/ncr.4100530816 ◽

1964 ◽

Vol 53 (8) ◽

pp. 463-463

Keyword(s):

Political Science ◽

American Political Science Review ◽

American Political Science Association ◽

Science Review ◽

American Political Science ◽

Science Association

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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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