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Transnational Constructions of Social Scientific Personae during the Cold War: The Case of Comparative Politics

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This chapter shows how students of comparative politics embraced certain techniques and operations of knowing against the background of the Cold War, institutional structures, and transnational exchanges. It does so by focusing on the role that research and researchers on Turkey, such as Dankwart Rustow and Frederick Frey, played in the Social Scientific Research Council (SSRC), its Committee on Comparative Politics, and its series on Political Development. With the help of the council’s programs, comparative political scientists constituted themselves as modern, neutral, and self-assured practitioners of science who sought to cultivate particular modes of thinking and research, including detached objectivity and behavioralist methods. I argue, however, that their self-presentation disavowed uncertainties and anxieties that they had about their own research projects. Furthermore, the uncertainties they had about their scholarly practices were also the product of their transnational activities and exchanges.

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  1. 1.

    Herbert Hyman, “Research Design,” pp. 187–88; Lucian Pye, “The Developing Areas,” pp. 7 and 6. Both in Robert Ward, ed. Studying Politics Abroad: Field Research in the Developing Areas (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964).

  2. 2.

    Ward, “Common Problems in Field Research” in Studying Politics Abroad, pp. 72–3.

  3. 3.

    Duncan Bell, “Writing the World: Disciplinary History and Beyond” International Affairs 85 (10), 2009, p. 5; David Long and Brian Schmidt, “Introduction,” Long and Schmidt, eds., Imperialism and Internationalism in the Discipline of International Relations (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005), p. 3.

  4. 4.

    Nils Gilman, Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003); Michael E. Latham, Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and “Nation Building” in the Kennedy Era (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000); S.M. Amadae, Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).

  5. 5.

    Hemant Shah, The Production of Modernization: Daniel Lerner, Mass Media, and the Passing of Traditional Society (Philadelphia, 2011); David Milne, America’s Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War (New York, 2008).

  6. 6.

    Paul Erickson et al., How Reason Almost Lost its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), p. 6; Michael Latham, “Modernization” in Dorothy Ross, ed. The Cambridge History of Science: The Modern Social Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), p. 730; Milne, America’s Rasputin, p. 254.

  7. 7.

    Duncan Bell and Joel Isaac, eds. Uncertain Empire: American History and the idea of the Cold War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012); Mark Solovey and Hamilton Cravens, eds. Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

  8. 8.

    Solovey, “Cold War Social Science: Specter, Reality, or Useful Concept?” in Solovey and Cravens, eds. Cold War Social Science.

  9. 9.

    Duncan Bell, “Writing the World: Disciplinary History and Beyond” International Affairs 85 (10), 2009, p. 20; Joel Isaac, “Tangled Loops: Theory, History, and the Human Sciences in Modern America” Modern Intellectual History 6 (2), 2009, p. 399.

  10. 10.

    Herman Paul, “Introduction: Scholarly Personae: What They Are and Why They Matter” in Herman Paul, ed., How to be a Historian: Scholarly Personae in Historical Studies: 1800–2000 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), 1–14, p. 3.

  11. 11.

    Lorraine Daston and Otto Sibum, “Introduction: Scientific Personae and Their Histories” Science in Context 16 (1/2), 2003: 1–8; Kirsti Niskanen, Mineke Bosch, Kaat Wils, “Scientific Personas in Theory and Practice—Ways of Creating Scientific, Scholarly, and Artistic Identities” Persona Studies 4 (1), 2018.

  12. 12.

    Paul, “Introduction.” I would like to thank Per Wisselgren and Mark Solovey for bringing the literature on scholarly personae to my attention.

  13. 13.

    On the centrality of anxiety to comparative literature, see Natalie Melas, All the Difference in the World: Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006). On comparative literature’s self-proclaimed drive toward irrelevance and inexpertise, see Daniel Elam, World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics (Fordham University Press, 2020).

  14. 14.

    On epistemic anxieties, see Ann Stoler, Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010).

  15. 15.

    Robert Ward and Dankwart Rustow, eds. Political Modernization in Turkey and Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964). See also Nathan Citino, Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S.-Arab Relations, 1945–1967 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017); Begüm Adalet, Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018).

  16. 16.

    Elbridge Sibley, Social Science Research Council: The First Fifty Years (New York: SSRC, 1974), p. 8.

  17. 17.

    Donald Young and Paul Webbink, “Current Problems of Council Concern in Research Organization” Items 1 (3), September 1947, pp. 3–4.

  18. 18.

    David Engerman, “Bernath Lecture: American Knowledge and Global Power” Diplomatic History 31 (4), 2007, 599–622.

  19. 19.

    Ibid.

  20. 20.

    Zachary Lockman, Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016).

  21. 21.

    Michael Hanchard, The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018), p. 55.

  22. 22.

    Ibid., p. 8.

  23. 23.

    Robert Vitalis, White World Order, Black Power Politics (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015).

  24. 24.

    Paul Cammack, Capitalism and Democracy in the Third World: The Doctrine for Political Development (London: Leicester University Press, 1997).

  25. 25.

    Adalet, Hotels and Highways, Chap. 2.

  26. 26.

    Karl Loewenstein, “Report on the Research Panel on Comparative Government” The American Political Science Review 38 (3) 1944, pp. 540–1.

  27. 27.

    Ibid., p. 547.

  28. 28.

    Pendleton Herring, “The Social Sciences in Modern Society” Items 1 (1), March 1947, 3–5.

  29. 29.

    David Engerman, “The Pedagogical Purposes of Interdisciplinary Social Science: A View from Area Studies in the United States” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 51 (1), 2015, 78–92, p. 85; Joseph Casagrande and Elbridge Sibley, “Area Research Training Fellowships and Travel Grants for Area Research: An Epilogue” Items 7 (4), December 1953, p. 38.

  30. 30.

    Elbridge Sibley, “Notes on Research Training Fellowship Policies” Items 3 (10), March 1949, p. 18

  31. 31.

    “Summer Research Training Institutes: A New Council Program” Items 8 (2), June 1954, p. 17.

  32. 32.

    Robert Adcock, Interpreting Behavioralism” in Robert Adcock, Mark Bevir, Shannon Stimson, eds. Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Exchanges since 1880 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007), p. 189.

  33. 33.

    Jessica Blatt, Race and the Making of American Political Science (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).

  34. 34.

    The behavioralist program was also funded by the Ford Foundation in the amount of 24 million between 1951 and 1957. Emily Hauptmann, “The Ford Foundation and the Rise of Behavioralism in Political Science” Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences, 48/2, Spring 2012, 154–173: 156.

  35. 35.

    Sigmund Neumann, “Comparative Politics: A Half-Century Appraisal” The Journal of Politics 19 (2), 1957, p. 383.

  36. 36.

    Dankwart Rustow, “Connections,” in Paths to the Middle East: Ten Scholars Look Back, ed. Thomas Naff (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993). See also Adalet, Hotels and Highways, Chap. 1.

  37. 37.

    Almond to Rustow, May 27, 1954. Dankwart Rustow Private Papers (DRP, New York). I would like to thank Margrit Wreschner-Rustow for giving me access to these.

  38. 38.

    Almond, “Research in Comparative Politics: Plans of a New Council Committee” Items 8 (1), March 1954, p. 2.

  39. 39.

    “Gabriel Almond” interview by Richard Brody, Political Science in America, p. 130.

  40. 40.

    Rustow to Coleman, December 24, 1958 (DRP); Adalet, Hotels and Highways, Chap. 1.

  41. 41.

    Coleman, Memorandum to Contributors to Politics of Developing Areas, May 1, 1959 (DRP).

  42. 42.

    Cited in Coleman, Memorandum to Contributors to Politics of Developing Areas, January 19, 1959 (DRP).

  43. 43.

    Ibid., Coleman, “Conclusion,” Gabriel Almond and James Coleman, eds. The Politics of the Developing Areas (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960), p. 558. See Tables 4, 5, and 6.

  44. 44.

    Sibylle Fischer, Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (Duke University Press, 2004); Melas, All the Difference.

  45. 45.

    Theodore Porter, “Speaking Precision to Power: The Modern Political Role of Social Science” Social Research: An International Quarterly 73 (4), Winter 2006, p. 1282.

  46. 46.

    Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, “The Image of Objectivity” Representations 40, Autumn, 1992, p. 83.

  47. 47.

    Ibid.

  48. 48.

    Blatt, Race and the Making, p. 142; Mark Solovey, Shaky Foundations: The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America (Rutgers University Press, 2013).

  49. 49.

    Rustow, “Connections”; Rustow, “Mukayeseli Devlet İdaresi ve Türkiye Üzerine Bir Seminer” A Seminar on Comparative Politics and Turkey Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi 16 (4) 1961, p. 197.

  50. 50.

    Ibid., pp. 193, 199.

  51. 51.

    “Neden Iki Memleket?” Why Two Countries? Milliyet, January 29, 1963; “Önderlik Ordudaydı” The Army had the Leadership Milliyet, February 5, 1963.

  52. 52.

    Niyazi Berkes, “Review Essay: Political Modernization in Japan and Turkey” International Journal 20 (2): 1965. See also Adalet, Hotels and Highways, Chap. 1.

  53. 53.

    Nermin Abadan, “Siyasal İlimlerde Gelişim Eğilimleri: Birleşik Amerika, İngiltere, Batı Almanya ve Fransa’daki Çalışmaların Mukayeseli İncelenmesi” Developments in Political Science: A Comparative Analysis of Studies in the United States, England, West Germany, and France Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi 17 (3), 1962, p. 188.

  54. 54.

    Yavuz Abadan, “Mukayeseli Devlet İdaresinin Ana Konuları ve Ortadoğu” The Main Themes of Comparative Politics and the Middle East Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi 17 (3), 1962, p. 114, 122.

  55. 55.

    Rustow, A World of Nations (Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1967), pp. 131–2.

  56. 56.

    Rustow, “Relevance in Social Science, or the Proper Study of Mankind” American Scholar 40 (3), 1971, p. 487, 496.

  57. 57.

    Joy Rohde, Armed with Expertise: The Militarization of American Social Research during the Cold War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013).

  58. 58.

    “Biographical Sketch: Frederick Ward Frey,” Biographical File, MIT Museum Collections.

  59. 59.

    Gail Matthews, “Modern-Day Role Explored: The Political Scientist and Society” Christian Science Monitor, July 11, 1964.

  60. 60.

    Herbert Hyman, “Sosyal Bilimler Metodolojisine Giriş Notları,” Notes on Introduction to Social Sciences Methodology trans. Arif Payaslıoğlu, Box 1, Folder 2, Herbert Hyman Papers, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries; Adalet, Hotels and Highways, Chap. 2.

  61. 61.

    Frederick Frey, “Cross-Cultural Survey Research in Political Science,” in Robert T. Holt and John E. Turner, eds., The Methodology of Comparative Research (New York: The Free Press, 1970), p. 179.

  62. 62.

    Daniel Lerner, The Passing of Traditional Society (New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1958).

  63. 63.

    Hyman, Payaslıoğlu and Frey, “The Values of Turkish College Youth,” Public Opinion Quarterly 22 (3), 1958; Adalet, Hotels and Highways, Chap. 2.

  64. 64.

    Frederick Frey, George Angell, and Abdurrahman Sanay, Lise Seviyesindeki Őğrencilerin Değer Sistemleri The Value Systems of High School Students (Ankara: MEB Talim ve Terbiye Dairesi Eğitim Araştırmaları ve Değerlendirme Merkezi, 1962).

  65. 65.

    Notes on the Conference on Research in the Middle East, sponsored by the SSRC, Tehran, February-March 1959 (DRP).

  66. 66.

    Hyman, Payaslıoğlu and Frey, “The Values,” p. 276.

  67. 67.

    Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı, “Sosyal İlim Metodolojisi: Köy ve Nüfus Araştırmaları, İzmir Araştırması,” Social Science Methodology: Rural and Population Studies, the Izmir Study in Türkiye’de Sosyal Araştırmaların Gelişmesi The Development of Social Research in Turkey (Ankara: Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları, 1971), p. 178; Adalet, Hotels and Highways, Chap. 2.

  68. 68.

    Frey, “Surveying Peasant Attitudes in Turkey.” The Public Opinion Quarterly. 27(3), 1963, p. 336, 353.

  69. 69.

    Ibid., p. 338.

  70. 70.

    Frey, “Cross-cultural Survey Research,” p. 210, 202.

  71. 71.

    Frey, “Surveying Peasant Attitudes,” p. 339.

  72. 72.

    See Rural Development Research Project Reports (Cambridge: CENIS, 1967).

  73. 73.

    Christa Wirth, “Felipe Landa Jocano, a Philippine Scholar between Manila and Chicago”; Sebastián Gil-Riaño, “Conquering the Tropics,” this volume.

  74. 74.

    For Frey’s contributions to the series, see “Political Development, Power, and Communications in Turkey” Communications and Political Development, ed. Lucian Pye (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963) and “Education: Turkey” in Political Modernization in Japan and Turkey.

  75. 75.

    Frey, Political Leadership in Turkey: The social backgrounds of deputies to the Grand National Assembly, 1920–1957, Unpublished PhD Dissertation, Princeton University, 1962, pp. 13 and 77.

  76. 76.

    Herring, “The Social Sciences,” p. 3.

  77. 77.

    Gabriel Almond, “The Political Culture of Foreign Area Research: Methodological Reflections” in Richard Samuels and Myron Weiner, eds. The Political Culture of Foreign Area and International Studies: Essays in honor of Lucian Pye (Washington: Brassey’s, 1992), p. 204.

  78. 78.

    Almond, A Discipline Divided, p. 227.

  79. 79.

    Ido Oren, Our Enemies and US: America’s Rivalries and the Making of Political Science (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003); Rohde, Armed with Expertise.

  80. 80.

    Robert Vitalis, “The Lost World of Development Theory” Perspectives on Politics, 2016, 1158–1162.

  81. 81.

    Gil-Riaño, “Conquering the Tropics”; Wirth, “Felipe Landa Jocano.” On modernization theory, see also Adalet, Hotels and Highways.

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Adalet, B. (2021). Transnational Constructions of Social Scientific Personae during the Cold War: The Case of Comparative Politics. In: Solovey, M., Dayé, C. (eds) Cold War Social Science. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70246-5_11

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