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OverviewFoundations in the United States have long exerted considerable power over education and scholarly production. Although today’s titans of philanthropy proclaim more loudly their desire to transform schools and universities than did some of their predecessors, philanthropic programs designed to reshape educational institutions are at least a century old. In Foundations and American Political Science, Emily Hauptmann focuses on the postwar Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller programs that reshaped political science. She shows how significant changes in the methods and research interests of postwar political scientists began as responses to the priorities set by their philanthropic patrons.Informed by years of research in foundation and university archives, Foundations and American Political Science follows the course of several streams of private philanthropic money as they wended their way through public universities and political science departments in the postwar period. The programs launched by the Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller philanthropies as well as their reception at the universities of California and Michigan steered political scientists towards particular problems as well as particular ways of studying them. The rise of statistical analyses of survey data, the decline of public administration, and persistent conflicts over the discipline’s purpose and the best methods for understanding politics, Hauptmann argues, all had their roots in the ways that postwar universities responded to foundations’ programs. Additionally, the new emphasis universities placed on sponsored research sparked sharp disputes among political scientists over what should count as legitimate knowledge about politics and what the ultimate purpose of the discipline should be. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Emily HauptmannPublisher: University Press of Kansas Imprint: University Press of Kansas Dimensions: Width: 15.10cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780700633777ISBN 10: 0700633774 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 01 November 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: FOUNDATIONS 1. “Propagandists for the Behavioral Sciences”: The Carnegie Corporation and the SSRC 2. The Ford Foundation’s “Golden Eggs” and the Constitution of Behavioralism 3. A “Catholic” Approach: The Rockefeller Foundation’s Diversified Social Science Program PART II: UNIVERSITIES 4. The Transformation of Political Science at Michigan: Patronage and the Rise of Political Behavior Research 5. Political Science at Berkeley: Growth, Conflict, and Dispersal Conclusion Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsEmily Hauptmann's Foundations and American Political Science makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the development of US political science in the postwar era, and particularly of the role of private philanthropy in shaping both the discipline itself and the institutions and practices of American higher education more generally. It is deeply researched and clearly written and organized. This is an impressive work.--Jessica Blatt, associate professor of political science at Marymount Manhattan College """Emily Hauptmann's Foundations and American Political Science makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the development of US political science in the postwar era, and particularly of the role of private philanthropy in shaping both the discipline itself and the institutions and practices of American higher education more generally. It is deeply researched and clearly written and organized. This is an impressive work.""--Jessica Blatt, associate professor of political science at Marymount Manhattan College" Author InformationEmily Hauptmann is professor of political science at Western Michigan University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |