Imagining the American Polity : : Political Science and the Discourse of Democracy / / John G. Gunnell.
Americans have long prided themselves on living in a country that serves as a beacon of democracy to the world, but from the time of the founding they have also engaged in debates over what the criteria for democracy are as they seek to validate their faith in the United States as a democratic regim...
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Gunnell, John G., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Imagining the American Polity : Political Science and the Discourse of Democracy / John G. Gunnell. University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2015] ©2004 1 online resource (304 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- ONE The Democratic Concept -- TWO The State of Democracy -- THREE The Discovery of American Pluralism -- FOUR The Theory of Democratic Pluralism -- FIVE From Pluralism to Liberalism -- SIX Pluralism Redux -- Appendix: Telling the Story of Political Science -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Americans have long prided themselves on living in a country that serves as a beacon of democracy to the world, but from the time of the founding they have also engaged in debates over what the criteria for democracy are as they seek to validate their faith in the United States as a democratic regime. In this book John Gunnell shows how the academic discipline of political science has contributed in a major way to this ongoing dialogue, thereby playing a significant role in political education and the formulation of popular conceptions of American democracy. Using the distinctive “internalist” approach he has developed for writing intellectual history, Gunnell traces the dynamics of conceptual change and continuity as American political science evolved from a focus in the nineteenth century on the idea of the state, through the emergence of a pluralist theory of democracy in the 1920s and its transfiguration into liberalism in the mid-1930s, up to the rearticulation of pluralist theory in the 1950s and its resurgence, yet again, in the 1990s. Along the way he explores how political scientists have grappled with a fundamental question about popular sovereignty: Does democracy require a people and a national democratic community, or can the requisites of democracy be achieved through fortuitous social configurations coupled with the design of certain institutional mechanisms? Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2023) Democracy History United States United States. Democracy United States History. Political science History United States. Political science United States History. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. bisacsh American Politics. History. John G. Gunnell. Political Science. Political Theory. democracy. democratic theory. internalist. united states. us. usa. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 9783110745269 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271031903?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271031903 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271031903/original |
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