作为地域性政治经验的知识总结，美国政治学何以成了西方政治学甚至政治学本身？美国政治学如何实现与欧洲政治学的区隔？如何将教学、政治教育与经世致用排除在外而仅仅成为（专业化科学）研究的跛足巨人？又是如何将历史分析驱逐出政治学的方法论领地而书写政治学史？这是我们比较阅读《政治学手册》与《政治科学新手册》看到的一系列问题。

Why has American political science, as a knowledge summary of regional political experience, become Western politics and even politics itself? How has American political science distinguished itself from European politics? How has American political science become a lame giant of(specialized and scientific) research by excluding teaching, political education and practical application? How does American political science write the history of politics after expelling historical analysis from the methodological domain of political science? We can see these problems when we read Handbook of Political Science(1975) and A New Handbook of Political Science(1996) in a comparative way.