Abstract
Politics is a feature of any associational activity but political scientists seldom systematically examine politics within their own profession. An account of the movement, essentially in the US in the 1970s, for the development of comparative legislative studies, affords a convenient case-study. An outcome of Title IX of the Foreign Assistance Act, its examination entails uncovering different strands of interest and of doctrine in relations between government (specifically the US Agency for International Development) and the academic community and also within that community.
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