Politics and social sciences / edited by Seymour Martn Lipset

The ten essays in this collection explore and evaluate the growing influence upon the study of politices and political science of related disciplines: economics, history, anthropology, psychology and psychiatry, sociology, and statistics. The broader contemporary and historical significance of this turend is discussed in Seymour Martin Lipset's introduction.
Along with other social sciences, political science has been engaged in a movement toward more rigorous meth odology and more systematic theory. To a considerable degree this has meant drawing politics closer to the concepts and methods of its neighboring disciplines. But the influence runs two ways, and politics, both in theory and practice, 1s now a central concern of everyone in the social sciences, as these discussions by authorities representing a variety of fields make abundantly clear.
Two of the articles focus upon the relation between history and political sCience, showing how these have been wedded in investigating American elections. Others probe the connections be tween anthropology and political science, and the approach of politics to the field of economics. The problem of personality in politics and psychiatry's possible contributions are weighed. Other essays dis.