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17 Pol. Theory 3 (1989)

handle is hein.journals/ptxa17 and id is 1 raw text is: FROM THE EDITOR THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE We are pleased to welcome Patrick Riley as the newest member of the Executive Committee. He has served this journal superbly as a reader in the past, and his extensive work on Kant and contract theory deserves the high respect it has received. We miss his immediate predecessor, George Kelly, immeasurably. While Kelly's accomplishments as a theorist have already been celebrated in this journal, he was also a trusted friend and wise advisor to us. Thomas Eagles is retiring as Assistant to the Editor. Those close to this journal know how indispensable he has been; his admirable work on the new cover design caps a term of attentive management of the journal. We welcome Ellen Freeberg, a graduate student in political theory at Johns Hopkins, as his replacement. She already displays the intellectuality, devotion to theory, and attentiveness to administrative detail needed in this assignment. POLITICAL THEORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE The relations between political theory and the rest of political science have been both intimate and uneasy, at least since the advent of behavioralism. In the fifties, many behavioral critics of traditional theory sought to supplant it with a descriptive, explanatory, realistic, and testable science. Pluralism, systems theory, and political develop- ment theory seemed to fit the bill; most other perspectives had not yet caught up with the end of ideology. But the hegemony of behavioralism was scattered in the late sixties both by its inability to carry out its own agenda and by a combine of theorists who subjected its understandings of science, ideology, concept formation, the fact/value dichotomy, explanation, and testability to critical scrutiny. These latter critiques drew upon (then) heterodox thinkers such as Kuhn, Toulmin, Wittgenstein, Winch, Marx, and Hegel. European theorists who migrated to America, such as Adorno, Arendt, Marcuse, Meisel, Neumann, Strauss and Voegelin, also had a profound impact on the robust self-definitions of theory emerging during this period. 3

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