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.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.
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Preface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPART I: FOUNDATIONS1. “Propagandists for the Behavioral Sciences”: The Carnegie Corporation and the SSRC2. The Ford Foundation’s “Golden Eggs” and the Constitution of Behavioralism3. A “Catholic” Approach: The Rockefeller Foundation’s Diversified Social Science ProgramPART II: UNIVERSITIES4. The Transformation of Political Science at Michigan: Patronage and the Rise of Political Behavior Research5. Political Science at Berkeley: Growth, Conflict, and DispersalConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
Emily Hauptmann is professor of political science at Western Michigan University.
