This Centennial Edition of Political Science: State of the Discipline furnishes an authoritative chronicle of recent scholarship and prompts thought about future directions. Sponsored by the American Political Science Association, the volume includes twenty-nine essays that demonstrate the field’s remarkable substantive breadth, normative range, analytical heterogeneity, and methodological diversity. Considered together, these essays also reveal many shared questions and strands of inquiry, despite the absence of a single disciplinary consensus.

Written by leading students of politics, the spirited and accessible overview provided by Political Science: State of the Discipline offers advanced scholars access to their field’s current work, extends to students comprehensive considerations of ongoing programs of research, and grants nonspecialists entry into ongoing conversations.

For ease of access, this volume has been divided into five parts, each of which has been linked. The table of contents is listed below.

Part One: The State in an Era of Globalization

• Preface and Acknowledgments, Ira Katznelson and Helen V. Milner
• American Political Science: The Discipline's State and the State of the Discipline, Ira Katznelson and Helen V. Milner
• The State of the Study of the State, Margaret Levi
• The State of the State in World Politics, Miles Kahler
• State, Society, and Development, Atul Kohli
• International Political Economy: Global and Domestic Interactions, Jeffry Frieden and Lisa L. Martin
• Comparative Political Economy: Credibility, Accountability, and Institutions, James E. Alt
• International Conflict: Assessing the Democratic Peace and Offense-Defense Theory, James D. Morrow
• The Enduring Relevance of the Realist Tradition, Stephen M. Walt

Part Two: Democracy, Justice, and Their Institutions

• The State of Democratic Theory, Ian Shapiro
• Justice, Jeremy Waldron
• Pluralization and Radical Democracy: Recent Developments in Critical Theory and Postmodernism, Romand Coles
• Legislatures as Political Institutions: Beyond the Contemporary Congress, Gerald Gamm and John Huber
• The Great Transformation in the Study of Politics in Developing Countries, Barbara Geddes
• The Political Economy of Business and Labor in the Developed Democracies, Kathleen Thelen

Part Three: Citizenship, Identity, and Political Participation

• Political Theory and Political Membership in a Changing World, Seyla Benhabib
• Citizen Participation in America: What Do We Know? Why Do We Care?, Kay Lehman Schlozman
• Gender: Public Opinion and Political Action, Nancy Bums
• Problems in the Study of the Politics of Racem, Michael C. Dawson and Cathy Cohen
• Parties, Participation, and Representation in America: Old Theories Face New Realities, Morris P. Fiorina
• Identity and Democracy: A Synthetic Perspective, Amy Gutmann
• Identity, Expression, and Rational-Choice Theory, Randall Calvert
• Constructivism and International Institutions: Toward Conversations across Paradigms, Thomas Risse

Part Four: Studying Politics

• Comparative Politics: The State of the Subdiscipline, David D. Laitin
• Rational-Choice Institutionalism, Barry R. Weingast
• Historical Institutionalism in Contemporary Political Science, Paul Pierson and Theda Skocpol
• The Study of American Political Development, Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek
• Game Theory, International Relations Theory, and the Hobbesian Stylization, Robert Powell
• Formal Theory Meets Data, Charles M. Cameron and Rebecca Morton
• Reclaiming the Experimental Tradition in Political Science, Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber

Part Five: Works Cited