ABSTRACT
The prospects of democratic and responsible government are enhanced when the doings of governments and of every other influential participant in the political process are open to mutual inspection and appraisal. In anticipation of the persisting challenge to creativity that the future will undoubtedly contain, discussion of professional training has centered on the cultivation of creativity. The idea of centers of political science is a specific example of an institutional means of adjusting perspectives and operations to the emerging needs. In a specialized civilization, the case for the continuing study of government by an organized profession of scholars is persuasive. This chapter outlines some policies open to the profession, as presently constituted, that promise to contribute to the success of political science in years to come. Whether a conventionally named body of scholars called "political scientists" will continue to play a prominent part in the study and appraisal of politics depends chiefly on its vigor and imagination.
