Robert Adcock Senior Professorial Lecturer Global Inquiry
- Degrees
- PhD, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley<br>MA, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley<br>BA, Summa Cum Laude, Political Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities<br>BS, Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- For the Media
- To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.
Teaching
Fall 2024
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SISU-440 SIS Honors Project I
Spring 2025
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SISU-441 SIS Honors Project II
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
2015 Award for Concept Analysis in Political Science, International Political Science Association's Committee on Concepts & Methods award for best work in concept analysis published in 2012-14
Selected Publications
Robert Adcock. 2014. Liberalism and the Emergence of Â鶹´«Ã½ Political Science: A Transatlantic Tale. New York: Oxford University Press.
Robert Adcock. 2014. "A Disciplinary History of Disciplinary Histories: The Case of Political Science." In A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences,eds. Roger E. Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Robert Adcock. 2013. "Generalization in Comparative and Historical Social Science: The Difference that Interpretivism Makes." In Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn, 2nd edition, eds. Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea. Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe.
Robert Adcock and Mark Vail. 2012. "Beyond Pluralism? Corporatism, Globalization, and the Dilemmas of Democratic Governance." In Modern Pluralism: Anglo-Â鶹´«Ã½ Debates since 1880, ed. Mark Bevir. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Robert Adcock. 2009. "Making Making Social Science Matter Matter to Us." Journal of Theoretical Politics 21 (1): 97-112.
Robert Adcock. 2007. "Who's Afraid of Determinism? The Ambivalence of Macro-Historical Inquiry." Journal of the Philosophy of History 1 (3): 346-64.
Robert Adcock, Mark Bevir, and Shannon Stimson, eds. 2007. Modern Political Science: Anglo-Â鶹´«Ã½ Exchanges since 1870. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Robert Adcock. 2006. "The Emigration of the 'Comparative Method': Transatlantic Exchange and the Birth of Â鶹´«Ã½ Political Science." European Political Science 5: 124-36.
Robert Adcock and Mark Bevir. 2005. "The History of Political Science." Political Studies Review 3 (Jan): 1-16.
Robert Adcock. 2003. "The Emergence of Political Science as a Discipline: History and the Study of Politics in America, 1875-1910." History of Political Thought 24 (3): 459-86.
Robert Adcock and David Collier. 2001. "Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research." Â鶹´«Ã½ Political Science Review 95 (3): 529-46.
David Collier and Robert Adcock. 1999. "Democracy and Dichotomies: A Pragmatic Approach to Choices about Concepts." Annual Review of Political Science 2: 537-65.