Learning About Politics in Time and Space

A sociologically riveting account of the development of political science... Rose shows a keen eye for the idiosyncrasies of politicians and political scientists. I have learnt a huge amount from this book, and with enormous pleasure. -- David Soskice, LSE and Duke University

Informative about past controversies and incisively extroverted about present concerns of political scientists in Europe and the US. It has much to teach those willing to learn from Richard Rose’s hard-earned experience. -- Jack Hayward, UK Politics Association

A fascinating insight into the working practices of one of the political science profession’s most prolific and distinguished scholars. It recounts the books, people, ideas, experiences, research and even the films, music and sport, that feed his boundless curiosity about the world. -- Ken Newton,University of Southampton and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung

Drawing on a remarkable career spanning continents and half a century, Richard Rose tells us where political science has been, and about how to practice good political science in the future. A stimulating assignment for any course in Scope and Methods. -- Ian McAllister, Australian National University

Richard Rose is Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde, and Visiting Professor at European University Institute, Florence. He has acted as consultant to global organisations including the World Bank, UNDP and the OECD. His work has been translated into 17 languages and Samizdat, and he has contributed widely to print and television media. He has been awarded seven lifetime achievement honours in countries across the world. In his outstanding six-decade career, Rose has written more than forty books about comparative politics and public policy. His broad knowledge - gained from working as a newspaper reporter and from his experiences in the corridors of power - allows him to combine the bottom-up perspective of the ordinary citizen with the views of presidents and prime ministers. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Professor Rose has published six books on post-Communist countries, most recently Understanding Post-Communist Transformation: a Bottom Up Approach.