Liberal Democracy and Political Science

Liberal Democracy and Political Science PDF Author: James W. Ceaser
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9780801845116
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Book Description
Do political scientists in a liberal democracy bear a special responsibility that goes beyond their academic pursuits? Ceaser, a scholar of American political parties, argues that they do, and he challenges colleagues and students to reexamine what they do as political scientists. He observes that liberal democracy is a compound of two elements not easily wed: constitutionalism and republicanism. The role of political science is to perform the "superintendent" function of keeping these parts together.