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My chair at Sheffield was called “Political Theory and Institutions”. I often wonder whether the men who named it thought that they were creating two jobs or one. What was meant to be the force of that “and”? I suspect that they thought, not very precisely, that there were indeed two positions, but that they wished, as a good English compromise, to keep them close together, at least to stop them getting too far apart. They probably did not wish for a “mere theorist” or for a menu too theoretical however scholarly, therefore “and Institutions” which would seem something practical, not simply descriptive.
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© 1971 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Crick, B. (1971). On Theory and Practice. In: Von Beyme, K. (eds) Theory and Politics/Theorie und Politik. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2750-2_14
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