Article ID: CBB001212676

Jean-Louis Delolme and the Political Science of the English Empire (2012)

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McDaniel, Iain (Author)


Historical Journal
Volume: 55, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 21-44

This article aims to extend our understanding of eighteenth-century political science through a re-examination of the writings of Jean-Louis Delolme (1741--1806). Beginning with an account of Delolme's conception of a modern `science of politics', the article demonstrates that Delolme's ambition to rest the study of politics on scientific foundations developed in the context of an evolving concern with the stability and durability of the English `empire'. Underlining Delolme's critique of traditional republican political science as well as the comparative science of politics set out in Montesquieu's The spirit of the laws, the article thus sheds light on the connection between eighteenth-century conceptions of political science and eighteenth-century analyses of the English constitution and the British state. The article concludes with a brief discussion of the resonance of Delolme's central ideas in late eighteenth-century debates, in Britain, America, and France, about the character and properties of the modern constitutional republic.

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Authors & Contributors
Andrews, Jonathan
Backhouse, Roger E.
Badel, Laurence
Boantza, Victor D.
Dixon, Joy
Fontaine, Philippe
Journals
Historical Journal
History of Psychiatry
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitgeschiedenis
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Rutgers University
Ashgate
Harvard University Press
Lexington Books
Concepts
Discipline formation
Development of science; change in science
Political science
Historiography
History of science, as a discipline
Anthropology
People
Boyle, Robert
Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle
Hobbes, Thomas
Kuhn, Thomas S.
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
Leonardo da Vinci
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Early modern
Places
England
France
United States
Great Britain
Belgium
Germany
Institutions
Ford Foundation
University of California, Berkeley
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