PEOPLE
The authors of social science books are people before they are political scientists. I bear this in mind when reading what is written and, in the case of people such as Aaron Wildavsky, I hear his strong Brooklyn voice when reading his texts. My relative youth amongst a pioneering generation of political scientists has meant that from time to time I write obituary tributes. Five follow, along with a tribute to a great survivor.
Photo: Sociable Political Sociologists
Photo: RR receiving PSA lifetime achievement award from Sam Beer
An interesting set of autobiographical memoirs of European political scientists can be found in Hans Daalder, editor, Comparative European Politics: the Story of a Profession, (London: Pinter, 1997) and of senior political scientists in America, including Gabriel Almond, Juan Linz and others in G. L. Munck and R. Snyder, eds., Passion, Craft and Method in Comparative Politics (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins 2007).