Revolutions Without Enemies: Key Transformations in Political Science

November 2006 Journal: American Political Science Review. "Революции без врагов. Трансформации в политической науке" Статья в журнале Американской политологической ассоциации, интересный подход к периодизации развития политической науки.Аmerican political science is a congenitally unsettled discipline, witnessing a number of movements
designed to reorient its fundamental character. Four prominent movements are compared here:
the statism accompanying the discipline’s early professionalization, the pluralism of the late 1910s
and early 1920s, behavioralism, and the Caucus for a New Political Science (with a brief glance at the
more recent Perestroika). Of these movements, only the first and third clearly succeeded. The discipline
has proven very hard to shift. Despite the rhetoric that accompanied behavioralism, both it and statism
were revolutions without enemies within the discipline (other than those appearing after they succeeded),
and therein lies the key to their success.