Liberalism and the emergence of American political science: a transatlantic tale

Abstract

Introduction. American Political Science and Liberalism in Transatlantic Perspective Part One: From Europe to America Chapter One. The Political in Political Science: The Liberal Debate about Democracy Chapter Two. The Science in Political Science: The Historicist Debate about Method Chapter Three. Democratized Classical Liberalism in the Antebellum American College: The Emigre Political Science of Francis Lieber Part Two: Wide Political Science and Liberalism in the Gilded Age Chapter Four. Political Science and Political Economy in the Age of Academic Reform: Andrew Dickson White and William Graham Sumner Chapter Five. Historical and Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University: Historicist Science, Liberalism, and the Founding of National Associations Part Three: Late Century Liberalisms and the New Political Science Chapter Six. Disenchanted Classical Liberalism as a Political Vision: William Graham Sumner and A. Lawrence Lowell Chapter Seven. Progressive Liberalism as a Political Vision: Woodrow Wilson's Political Science Chapter Eight. The Transatlantic Study of Modern Political Systems: The New Political Science of James Bryce, A. Lawrence Lowell, and Frank Goodnow Conclusion. The Americanization of Political Science and the Americanization of