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The Science of the State: Race, Class, and National Identity in Us Political Science, 1835 to 1945

The Science of the State: Race, Class, and National Identity in Us Political Science, 1835 to 1945

Barrow, Clyde W.

Hardcover

Series: Class, Power, and the State in the 21st Century, Book 1

General Political Science

ISBN10: 3111599299
ISBN13: 9783111599298
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Jun 22 2026
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.68
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Science of the State: Race, Class, and National Identity in US Political Science, 1835-1945 traces the origins of US political science as it emerged from the Staatwissenschaft paradigm of post-Hegelian nineteenth century Germany, particularly through the influence of Johann Caspar Bluntschli, Wilhelm G. F. Roscher, and Ludwig von Gumplowicz. The US science of the state emphasized three concepts - race, class, and national identity - which generated two competing theories of the state: a metaphysical theory of the state anchored in the concept of race, and an economic theory of the state anchored in the concept of class. By the 1920s, a new sociological theory of the state laid the foundations for a paradigm shift from the science of the state to pluralism in US political science. The author suggests that the origins of US political science structured its development as a dialectical conflict between the official discipline's ideological defense of economic and racial inequality and a critical political science, which challenged the structural inequalities of US capitalism and liberal democracy.

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