|
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes
|
Buy Now
Liberalism and the Emergence of American Political Science - A Transatlantic Tale (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R1,744
Discovery Miles 17 440
|
|
|
Liberalism and the Emergence of American Political Science - A Transatlantic Tale (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days
|
This book situates the origins of American political science in
relation to the transatlantic history of liberalism. In a
corrective to earlier accounts, it argues that, as political
science took shape in the nineteenth century American academy, it
did more than express a pre-existing American liberalism. The
pioneers of American political science participated in
transatlantic networks of intellectual and political elites that
connected them directly to the vicissitudes of liberalism in
Europe. The book shows how these figures adapted multiple
contemporary European liberal arguments to speak to particular
challenges of mass democratic politics and large-scale industry as
they developed in America. Political science's pioneers in the
American academy were thus active agents of the Americanization of
liberalism. When political science first secured a niche in the
American academy during the antebellum era, it advanced a
democratized classical liberal political vision overlapping with
the contemporary European liberalism of Tocqueville and John Stuart
Mill. As political science expanded during the dramatic growth of
university ideals and institutions in the Gilded Age, divergence
within its liberalism came to the fore in the area of political
economy. In the late-nineteenth century, this divergence was
fleshed out into two alternative liberal political
visions-progressive liberal and disenchanted classical liberal-with
different analyses of democracy and the administrative state.
During the early twentieth-century, both visions found expression
among early presidents of the new American Political Science
Association, and subsequently, within contests over the meaning of
'liberalism' as this term acquired salience in American political
discourse. In sum, this book showcases how the history of American
political science offers a venue in which we see how a distinct
current of mid-nineteenth-century European liberalism was
divergently transformed into alternative twentieth-century American
liberalisms.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
