American Science of Politics: Its Origins and Conditions

by Bernard Crick

A critical review of the way in which the idea of a science of politics has increasingly come to dominate the imagination of American students of politics.

Genres: History

252 pages, Hardcover

First published November 30, 1982

About the author

Sir Bernard Rowland Crick was a British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views were often summarised as "politics is ethics done in public". He sought to arrive at a "politics of action", as opposed to a "politics of thought" or of ideology.