Political Science ― The State of the Discipline

Editors IraKatznelson and Helen V. Milner of Columbia University sought to"reflect the vibrant, often contested, diversity of political sciencewhile chronicling the past decade’s scholarship and prompting thoughtabout future directions."

Breaking away from a traditional organization around the four majorfields of political science, the editors chose to create a frameworkthat focuses first on the state, followed by democracy, then agency,and concluding with means of inquiry.

This handsome, clothbound volume is an important resource for allscholars interested in reading across fields and includes an essentialunified bibliography.