The benefit of broad horizons intellectual and institutional preconditions for a global social science: festschrift for Björn Wittrock on the occasion of his 65th birthday

Introduction, Hans Joas and Barbro KleinWhat are the Benefits of Broad Horizons?, Peter GardenforsPART ONE: THE STATE AND THE POLITICALThe Reconstitution of the Realm of the Political as the Problematique of Modern Regimes, S.N. EisenstadtThe Strange Hybrid of the Early American State, Max EdlingPolicy Metrics under Scrutiny: The Legacy of New Public Management, Daniel Tarschys  PART TWO: HISTORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCESHistory and the Social Sciences Today, Jurgen Kocka The Present Position and Prospects of Social and Political Theory, Dietrich RueschemeyerThe Contingency of Secularization: Reflections on the Problem of Secularization in the Work of Reinhart Koselleck, Hans JoasThe Missing Sentence: The Visual Arts and the Social Sciences in Mid-Nineteenth Century Paris, Wolf LepeniesPolitical Economy in A Historical Context: The Case of Malthus and Sweden, Lars MagnussonProfessionalism as Ideology, Rolf TorstendahlPART THREE: CIVILIZATIONAL STUDIES AND COMPARISONS OF CIVILIZATIONS Interpreting History and Understanding Civilizations, Johann P. ArnasonComparison without Hegemony, Sheldon PollockDevelopmental Patterns and Processes in Islamicate Civilization and the Impact of Modernization, Said ArjomandTowards a World Sociology of Modernity, Peter WagnerPART FOUR: CULTURAL AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS"The First Draft of History": Notes on Events and Cultural Turbulence, Ulf HannerzCultural loss and Cultural Rescue: Lilli Zickerman, Ottilia Adelborg, and the Promises of the Swedish Homecraft Movement, Barbro KleinBuddhist connections between China and Ancient Cambodia: Srama a Mandra's visit to Jiankang, Wang BangweiAutochtonous Chinese Conceptual History in a Jocular Narrative Key: The Emotional Engagement Qing, Christoph HarbsmeierOn the Contagiousness of Non-Contagious Behavior: The Case of Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion, Peter Hedstroem and Rebeca IbarraPART FIVE: UNIVERSITIES AND THE DILEMMAS OF HIGHER EDUCATIONViews from the Acropolis and the Agora: Clark Kerr's Industrial Society, Sheldon RothblattThe Growing Confusion Between "Private" and "Public" in American Higher Education, Neil SmelserThe Unintended Consequences of Quantitative Measures in the Management of Science, Peter Weingart The Compression of Research Time and the Temporalization of the Future, Helga NowotnyCODABetter to Be Than Not to Be?, Gustaf Arrhenius and Wlodek RabinowitzTabula GratulatoriaIndex