American Political Thought

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Author by Doyce B. Nunis
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American Political Thought

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Author by Morton J. Frisch
Genre : Political Science
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN : 9781412844291
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The Second World War was a crisis not just for America but for the whole of Western Civilization and, in the wake of that war, a new crisis arose which came to be called the "Cold War:' Just when that gave the appearance of being resolved, the world reached a new juncture, a new crisis, which Samuel P. Huntington dubbed the "clash of civilizations:' The statesmen having political responsibility in confronting the first three crises in America's history came as close to philosophic grasp of the problems of liberal democracy as one could demand from those embroiled in the active resolution of events. Their reflection of political philosophy in the full sense informed their actions. --

A History Of American Political Theories

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Author by Charles Merriam
Genre : History
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN : 9781351535359
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A History of American Political Theories is a comprehensive attempt to understand the full sweep of American political thought since the founding. Working within the liberal-progressive tradition, Merriam reviewed American political history in its entirety, from the founding down to his own day. He was not out to reduce political thought to a single element such as economics alone; his aim was to encompass the whole of modern social science. The political science of the liberal-progressive tradition has roots and assumptions that were born in this period and nurtured by scholars such as Merriam. The progressive tradition in general and Merriam in particular interpreted the rise of a new science of politics that would be required for the liberal-progressive world view he represented. His work stands at a momentous fork in the road; two great traditions of how American democracy should be understood, interpreted, and analyzed parted company and afterward each went their separate ways. These traditions are represented, respectively, by the founders and the liberal-progressives. There was much at stake in these academic debates, though the consequences were not entirely foreseen at the time. An overview of the authors, works, and general source material covered in History of American Political Theories is impressive. Merriam viewed the study of American democracy as an eclectic activity embracing the broadest definition of the social sciences, with particular emphasis on psychology. Such a transformation required that the social sciences be grouped as a whole rather than fragmented into separate and distinct academic departments.

American Political Ideas

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Author by Charles Edward Merriam
Genre : United States
Publisher : New York : Johnson Reprint Corporation
ISBN : UOM:49015000222308
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History Of American Political Thought

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Author by Raymond Garfield Gettell
Genre : Political science
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ISBN : UOM:39015021282275
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The Pluralist Vision In American Political Thought Adams Madison And Calhoun On Community Citizenship And The Public Interest

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Author by Darryl Baskin (Benny)
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W E B Du Bois And American Political Thought

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Author by Adolph L. Reed
Genre : African Americans
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN : 9780195051742
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Reed argues that DuBois is not best seen as the 'premier black intellectual' but rather as a member of a cohort that included other progressive and radical American voices, black and white. Afro-American thought must be placed in context, not isolated.

American Political Thought

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Author by Colin Glennon
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Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN : 151658399X
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American Political Thought: Theory and Practice provides students with a carefully curated selection of short and accessible readings that explore essential themes in American political thought. The anthology comprises diverse writings from a variety of American political thinkers throughout time. Opening chapters present readers with reflections on the founding of the United States of America and its Constitution. Additional chapters explore the enduring debate over the scope and power of American government and attendant discussions of federalism. Students examine the role of "the common person" in American politics as embodied by Jacksonian democracy; individualism and transcendentalism; race, gender, and sexuality in American politics and society; America's role in the world system; and more. Political thinkers featured within the volume include Thomas Paine, George Washington, Stephen Howard Browne, Walt Whitman, Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Andrew Bracevich, and Noam Chomsky, to name a few. Designed to ignite a lifelong interest in the subject matter, American Political Thought is an ideal textbook for American history and politics courses.

American Interpretations Of Natural Law

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Author by Benjamin Fletcher Wright
Genre : Philosophy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN : 9781351532662
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This book illustrates the deep roots of natural law doctrines in America's political culture. Originally published in 1931, the volume shows that American interpretations of natural law go to the philosophical heart of the American regime. The Declaration of Independence is the preeminent example of natural law in American political thoughtit is the self-evident truth of American society.Benjamin Wright proposes that the decline of natural law as a guiding factor in American political behaviour is inevitable as America's democracy matures and broadens. What Wright also chronicled, inadvertently, was how the progressive critique of natural law has opened a rift between and among some of the ruling elites and large numbers of Americans who continue to accept it. Progressive elites who reject natural law do not share the same political culture as many of their fellow citizens.Wright's work is important because, as Leo Strauss and others have observed, the decline of natural law is a development that has not had a happy ending in other societies in the twentieth century. There is no reason to believe it will be different in the United States.

Redeeming American Political Thought

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Author by Judith Nisse Shklar
Genre : Political Science
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN : 0226753476
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A collection of thirteen essays on American political thought.