CHRISTOPHER BLISS
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780197264904
- eISBN:
- 9780191754081
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264904.003.0014
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
Maurice Scott, an outstanding economics scholar associated for most of his career with Nuffield College Oxford, was involved in the revolution in economic thought of the 1960s and 1970s. His major ...
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Maurice Scott, an outstanding economics scholar associated for most of his career with Nuffield College Oxford, was involved in the revolution in economic thought of the 1960s and 1970s. His major work, A New View of Economic Growth (1989), was coolly received. Scott, who wrote an autobiography, My Life, and a philosophical study entitled Peter's Journey: A Search for the True Purpose of Life (1998), was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1990. Obituary by Christopher Bliss FBA.Less
Maurice Scott, an outstanding economics scholar associated for most of his career with Nuffield College Oxford, was involved in the revolution in economic thought of the 1960s and 1970s. His major work, A New View of Economic Growth (1989), was coolly received. Scott, who wrote an autobiography, My Life, and a philosophical study entitled Peter's Journey: A Search for the True Purpose of Life (1998), was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1990. Obituary by Christopher Bliss FBA.
Christopher Hood, Desmond King, and Gillian Peele (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199682218
- eISBN:
- 9780191762741
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199682218.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
This book analyses the growth of the academic discipline of politics and international relations at Oxford University over the last century. The Oxford story of teaching and research in politics ...
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This book analyses the growth of the academic discipline of politics and international relations at Oxford University over the last century. The Oxford story of teaching and research in politics provides one case study of the maturation and professionalization of social science disciplines that occurred in the world’s leading universities during that time. Oxford is a critical case because several aspects of its organization seem, at first glance, to militate against disciplinary development. Its institutional structure, in which colleges enjoyed autonomy from the central university until recently, its proximity to the practice of government and politics, and its emphasis on tutorial-based undergraduate teaching all distinguish Oxford’s approach to politics from its competitors. The chapters examine the founding of the university’s first dedicated position in political science, the study of the British Constitution and the development of electoral studies, the contrasting ways in which international relations and war studies emerged in the curriculum, the commitment to political theory and area studies, and the distinctive role of Nuffield and St Antony’s, Oxford’s two social science graduate colleges. What emerges is the surprising capacity of Oxford’s politics teachers and researchers to take a lead in such core subjects as political theory, the study of comparative politics, order in international relations, and the scientific study of elections.Less
This book analyses the growth of the academic discipline of politics and international relations at Oxford University over the last century. The Oxford story of teaching and research in politics provides one case study of the maturation and professionalization of social science disciplines that occurred in the world’s leading universities during that time. Oxford is a critical case because several aspects of its organization seem, at first glance, to militate against disciplinary development. Its institutional structure, in which colleges enjoyed autonomy from the central university until recently, its proximity to the practice of government and politics, and its emphasis on tutorial-based undergraduate teaching all distinguish Oxford’s approach to politics from its competitors. The chapters examine the founding of the university’s first dedicated position in political science, the study of the British Constitution and the development of electoral studies, the contrasting ways in which international relations and war studies emerged in the curriculum, the commitment to political theory and area studies, and the distinctive role of Nuffield and St Antony’s, Oxford’s two social science graduate colleges. What emerges is the surprising capacity of Oxford’s politics teachers and researchers to take a lead in such core subjects as political theory, the study of comparative politics, order in international relations, and the scientific study of elections.
Jack Hayward and Sudhir Hazareesingh
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780197262788
- eISBN:
- 9780191754210
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197262788.003.0022
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
Vincent Wright, a towering figure in political science, was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1995. He had specialised in the history of French public administration and, on moving to Oxford ...
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Vincent Wright, a towering figure in political science, was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1995. He had specialised in the history of French public administration and, on moving to Oxford to an Official Fellowship at Nuffield College, turned more to comparative politics. Wright was co-founder of the journal West European Politics. Obituary by Jack Hayward FBA and Sudhir Hazareesingh.Less
Vincent Wright, a towering figure in political science, was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1995. He had specialised in the history of French public administration and, on moving to Oxford to an Official Fellowship at Nuffield College, turned more to comparative politics. Wright was co-founder of the journal West European Politics. Obituary by Jack Hayward FBA and Sudhir Hazareesingh.
