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The Return to History and the New Institutionalism in American Political Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

David Brian Robertson
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When it emerged as a discipline a century ago, the historical and comparative description of political institutions dominated political science. The self-consciously rigorous analysis of behavior inspired by psychology and the physical sciences began to displace historical analysis in the 1920s. By the 1950s and 1960s the behavioral revolution came to dominate the discipline’s research agendas. Leading practitioners acknowledged that the discipline’s tone was predominantly ahistorical.

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Social Science History , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , Spring 1993 , pp. 1 - 36
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1993 

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