The First Machiavellian Moment in America
First Machiavellian Moment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11065138 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J S Maloy (Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 450-462 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2010.00506.x |
| OpenAlex | W1819903277 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
Standard interpretations of early American political thought and of the classical‐republican tradition fit uneasily with an overlooked episode in the history of ideas: the reception of Machiavelli in seventeenth‐century New England. Some puritans there not only found ways to justify bad means for good ends but also adopted a deeper, properly political Machiavellism, upholding the priority of popular judgment over elite wisdom and of institutionalized accountability over discretionary political authority. Unlike the eighteenth‐century republicanism that has preoccupied modern scholarship, the theory of radical democracy associated with the first Machiavellian moment in America puts fundamental institutional reform and accountability with teeth on the agenda of democratic theory
Accountability · Democracy · Democratic Theory · Elite · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theory and Influence
The ideological origins of the American Revolution.
The English Levellers
William Bradford's Books
Why Deliberative Democracy?
The Principles of Representative Government
Liberty before Liberalism
Machiavelli and Republicanism
Democracy and Development
Deliberative Democracy and its Discontents
Democracy, Electoral and Contestatory
Selected Writings
Letters from New England
Squanto and Massasoit
Literary Culture in Early New England. 1620-1730
A Stranger in the Land
The Artist at Work
Struggle and Survival in Colonial America
Democracy's discontent
Democracy, Accountability, and Representation
Machiavelli Against Republicanism
Reading Machiavelli
ALiberalRepublican “Cato
Contain the Wealthy and Patrol the Magistrates
Machiavellian Democracy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |