History of the Caucus for a New Political Science

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Acknowledgements

This history is a collective effort. Thanks to the New Political Science journal, which originally published the Caucus for a New Political Science history in 1999 (volume 21, number 3, pp. 417–420). Thanks also to the Coordinating Committee of 2005–2007 and to our dedicated members who contributed facts and editorial suggestions. Finally, we thank the scholar-activists whose actions made this history. As a supplement to this history, we are pleased to publish the following articles by John Ehrenberg, Judith Grant, Margaret Levi and her collaborators, and Dean Robinson. These articles originated in a special New Political Science panel on “40 Years of Challenges: Critical Issues Then and Now” at the 2007 APSA meeting. The panel also included Frances Fox Piven, J. Philip Thompson, and Cornel West.

Notes

¹ C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (New York: Oxford University Press, 1958), p. 20.

² Michael Parenti, “Patricians, Professionals, and Political Science,” American Political Science Review 100:4 (2006), p. 502.

³ H. Mark Roelofs, “Communications: To the Editor,” PS 1:1 (1968), pp. 38–40. Other members of the original executive committee were Ronald Bayer (University of Chicago), Tom Blau (University of Chicago), Alex Gottfried (University of Washington), Edward C. Hayes (University of California, Berkeley), Sanford V. Levinson (Harvard University), Alden E. Lind (University of North Carolina), David Morris (Institute for Policy Studies), and Marvin Surkin (Moravian College).

⁴ Michael Parenti, “Patricians, Professionals, and Political Science,” op. cit., p. 503; See also Charles Lindblom, “Another State of Mind,” American Political Science Review 76:1 (1982), pp. 9–21; Charles A. McCoy and John Playford (eds), Apolitical Politics: Critique of Behavioralism (New York: Thomas Y. Cromwell, 1967); Michael Parenti, “The State of the Discipline: One Interpretation of Everyone's Favorite Controversy,” PS 16:2 (1983), pp. 189–196.

⁵ Michael Parenti, “Patricians, Professionals, and Political Science,” op. cit., p. 502.

⁶ John G. Gunnel, “The Founding of the American Political Science Association: Discipline, Profession, Political Theory and Politics,” American Political Science Review 100:4 (2006), p. 485.

⁷ Rogers Smith.