Foundations and American Political Science: The Transformation of a Discipline, 1945-1970
Emily Hauptmann, "Foundations and American Political Science: The Transformation of a Discipline, 1945-1970"
English | ISBN: 0700633774 | 2022 | 280 pages | EPUB | 805 KB
English | ISBN: 0700633774 | 2022 | 280 pages | EPUB | 805 KB
Foundations 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.
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