The benefit of broad horizons : intellectual and institutional preconditions for a global social science : festschrift for Bjorn Wittrock on the occasion of his 65th birthday / edited by Hans Joas, Barbro Klein.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What are the benefits of broad horizons? / Hans Joas and Barbro Klein -- The reconstitution of the realm of the political and the problematique of modern regimes / S.N. Eisenstadt -- The strange hybrid of the early American state / Max Edling -- Policy metrics under scrutiny : the legacy of new public management / Daniel Tarschys -- History and the social sciences today / Jurgen Kocka -- The present position and prospects of social and political theory / Dietrich Rueschemeyer -- The contingency of secularization : reflections on the problem of secularization in the work of Reinhart Koselleck / Hans Joas -- The missing sentence : the visual arts and the social sciences in mid-nineteenth century Paris / Wolf Lepenies -- Political economy in a historical context : the case of Malthus and Sweden / Lars Magnusson -- Professionalism as ideology / Rolf Torstendahl -- Interpreting history and understanding civilizations / Johann P. Arnason -- Comparison without hegemony / Sheldon Pollock -- Developmental patterns and processes in Islamicate civilization and the impact of modernization / Said Arjomand -- Towards a world sociology of modernity / Peter Wagner -- "The first draft of history" : notes on events and cultural turbulence / Ulf Hannerz -- Cultural loss and cultural rescue : Lilli Zickerman, Ottilia Adelborg, and the promises of the Swedish homecraft movement / Barbro Klein -- Buddhist connections between China and ancient Cambodia : Srama a Mandra's visit to Jiankang / Wang Bangwei -- Autochtonous Chinese conceptual history in a jocular narrative key : the emotional engagement Qing / Christoph Harbsmeier -- On the contagiousness of non-contagious behavior : the case of tax avoidance and tax evasion / Peter Hedstrom and Rebeca Ibarra -- Views from the Acropolis and the Agora : Clark Kerr's Industrial society / Sheldon Rothblatt -- The growing confusion between "private" and "public" in American higher education / Neil Smelser -- The unintended consequences of quantitative measures in the management of science / Peter Weingart -- The compression of research time and the temporalization of the future / Helga Nowotny -- Better to be than not to be? / Gustaf Arrhenius and Wlodek Rabinowitz.

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More than perhaps anybody else in the world, the Swedish social scientist Björn Wittrock has contributed - both on the intellectual and institutional level - to making a truly global science possible. This book is devoted to an appreciation of his contributions.

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