Politics and Progress by Dennis J. Mahoney, Harry V. Jaffa - 9780739106563

Politics and ProgressThe Emergence of American Political Science\nAuthor(s): Dennis J. Mahoney, Harry V. Jaffa\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9780739106563, 978-0739106563\nSynopsis\nIn Politics and Progress, author Dennis J. Mahoney describes the emergence of American political science as a separate academic discipline in the era between the Civil War and the First World War, with the pivotal event of the founding of the American Political Science Association in 1903. His book, a testament to the integrity of American political science, chronicles its intellectual and cultural development. According to Mahoney, American political science borrowed its ideas from European, especially German, political science. Subsequently, it was influenced by the notion of scientific progress as exemplified in the writings of American pragmatists and progressivist politics. Mahoney notes that institutionalization in the Ame.