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The Influence of European Émigré Scholars on Comparative Politics, 1925–1965

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2006

GERHARD LOEWENBERG
GERHARD LOEWENBERG
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The University of Iowa
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Abstract

Among European émigré intellectuals who came to the United States between 1925 and 1940, a small group of prolific, influential scholars who received appointments at major colleges and universities helped to restore the comparative approach to the study of political systems. That approach had been dominant in the early years of the discipline but had been lost during its Americanization in the first quarter of the twentieth century. The teaching and writing of these scholars contributed to the formulation of theoretical frameworks designed to facilitate cross-national comparison. When the purview of comparative politics expanded in the 1950s and 1960s to include the developing areas, the advantages of multination comparisons became even more evident.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 100 , Issue 4 , November 2006 , pp. 597 - 604
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© 2006 by the American Political Science Association

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