Scholars working in or sympathetic to American political
development (APD) share a commitment to accurately understanding
the history of American politics - and thus they question stylized
facts about America's political evolution. Like other approaches to
American politics, APD prizes analytical rigor, data collection,
the development and testing of theory, and the generation of
provocative hypotheses. Much APD scholarship indeed overlaps with
the American politics subfield and its many well developed
literatures on specific institutions or processes (for example
Congress, judicial politics, or party competition), specific policy
domains (welfare policy, immigration), the foundations of
(in)equality in American politics (the distribution of wealth and
income, race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexual and gender
orientation), public law, and governance and representation. What
distinguishes APD is careful, systematic thought about the ways
that political processes, civic ideals, the political construction
of social divisions, patterns of identity formation, the making and
implementation of public policies, contestation over (and via) the
Constitution, and other formal and informal institutions and
processes evolve over time - and whether (and how) they alter,
compromise, or sustain the American liberal democratic regime. APD
scholars identify, in short, the histories that constitute American
politics. They ask: what familiar or unfamiliar elements of the
American past illuminate the present? Are contemporary phenomena
that appear new or surprising prefigured in ways that an APD
approach can bring to the fore? If a contemporary phenomenon is
unprecedented then how might an accurate understanding of the
evolution of American politics unlock its significance? Featuring
contributions from leading academics in the field, The Oxford
Handbook of American Political Development provides an
authoritative and accessible analysis of the study of American
political development.
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