This book shows how a multidisciplinary approach combining conceptual and methodological tools from political history and political science can help to develop a deeper understanding of contemporary political phenomena including democracy, populism, war, and forced migrations, among others.

Carlos Domper Lasús is a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the History Department of the Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). His work aims at integrating Iberian dictatorships into post-1945 Western Europe history.

Giorgia Priorelli is a María Zambrano Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of History at the Universitat de Girona (Spain). Her research interests include nationalism, Italian and Spanish fascisms, refugees and forced displacement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Introduction: Political History and Political Science -The Great Potential of an Under-Explored Collaboration 1. Political Science and Political History: Creating a New Integral Approach 2. Corporatism and Dictatorship: Between Politics and History 3. Approaching Elections Under Autocracies from a Multidisciplinary Political Perspective: The Case of Iberian Dictatorships (1945-1975) 4. War: The Necessary Reassembly of a Fragmented Research Object 5. History and Political Science in Forced Migration Studies: Interlacing Seemingly Incompatible Approaches of Analysis 6. Transition to Democracy 7. Political Science as a Modernist Project 8. Thinking with History in Policy 9. A Never-Ending Crisis?: The History of the Mass Party in the Social Sciences and History 10. Studying Populism at the Intersection of Political Science and Political History: The Case of the Boerenpartij in the Netherlands, 1950s-1970s 11. Teaching Communism and Post-Communism in the 21st Century