ABSTRACT
In the educational system of the nation, the growth of political science instruction and research has been rapid. A link between the professional study of government and public affairs is occasionally brought to general notice when an academic specialist plays a prominent part in national politics. It is evident that the inner tensions of the recent decades of accelerated growth are to be explained in part by the tradition that political science is a microcosm of the macrocosm of law, the humanities, and the social and psychological sciences. Ambiguity and confusion betray the inner tensions that have accompanied the rapid development of the field. Political scientists with a theoretical-empirical bent have often looked enviously at departments of economics. In political science itself, the problem has been made more acute by the intellectual insurgency of organizations that were once supposed to content themselves with a modest patrimony of intellectual equipment.
