Combining Political History and Political Science: Towards a New Understanding of the Political

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This book shows how a multidisciplinary approach combining conceptual and methodological tools from political history and political science can help to develop a deeper understanding of contemporary political phenomena including democracy, populism, war, and forced migrations, among others. Throughout the eleven chapters, the volume brings together senior academics and early-career scholars to explore this innovative approach through a broad range of case studies which are not specific to any particular nation but are characteristic of contemporaneity worldwide. Both the international character and the interdisciplinary appeal of this book are reinforced by the fact that the editors and contributors come from different countries and diverse academic traditions. This book is aimed at scholars, researchers and postgraduate students interested in interdisciplinary approaches and working on politics and global phenomena in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction: Political History and Political Science—The Great Potential of an Under-Explored Collaboration 1. Political Science and Political History: Creating a New Integral Approach 2. Corporatism and Dictatorship: Between Politics and History 3. Approaching Elections Under Autocracies from a Multidisciplinary Political Perspective: The Case of Iberian Dictatorships (1945–1975) 4. War: The Necessary Reassembly of a Fragmented Research Object 5. History and Political Science in Forced Migration Studies: Interlacing Seemingly Incompatible Approaches of Analysis 6. Transition to Democracy 7. Political Science as a Modernist Project 8. Thinking with History in Policy 9. A Never-Ending Crisis? The History of the Mass Party in the Social Sciences and History 10. Studying Populism at the Intersection of Political Science and Political History: The Case of the Boerenpartij in the Netherlands, 1950s–1970s 11. Teaching Communism and Post-Communism in the 21st Century Index