Editor's introduction 1. The declination of the state and the origins of American pluralism John G. Gunnell 2. An ambivalent alliance: political science and American democracy Terence Ball 3. The pedagogical purposes of a political science Stephen T. Leonard 4. Public opinion in modern political science J. A. W. Gunn 5. Disciplining Darwin: biology in the history of political science John S. Dryzek and David Schlosberg 6. Race and political science: the dual traditions of race relations politics and African-American politics Hanes Walton, Jr., Cheryl M. Miller, and Joseph P. McCormick, II 7. Realism in international relations Jack Donnelly 8. Remembering the revolution: behavioralism in American political science James Farr 9. Policy analysis and public life: the restoration of phronesis? Douglas Torgerson 10. The development of the spatial theory of elections John Ferejohn 11. Studying institutions: some lessons from the rational choice approach Kenneth A. Shepsle 12. Order and time in institutional study: a brief for the historical approach Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek Bibliography.