Redeeming American Political Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3238407 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Judith N Shklar (Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-15 |
| Publication date | 1991-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1962875 |
| OpenAlex | W2323479852 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
American political theory has been accused of being uniformly liberal; but its history is diverse and is worth studying to understand the development of political science and the institutions it reflects (representative government, federalism, judicial review, and slavery). While modern social science expresses a slow democratization of values, it has been compatible with many ideologies. This can be seen in Jefferson's anthropology, Madison's theory of collective rationality, and Hamilton's empirical political economy. Jacksonian democracy encouraged social history, while its opponents devised an elitist political sociology. Southern defenders of slavery were the earliest to develop a deterministic and authoritarian sociology, but after the Civil War Northern thinkers emulated them with Social Darwinism and quests for causal laws to grasp constant change in industrial society. Though social critics abounded, democratic empirical theory emerged in the universities only in the generation of Merriam and Dewey, who founded contemporary political science
Authoritarianism · Democracy · Democratization · Economics · Epistemology · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Rationality · Skepticism · Social science · Sociology · Academic Freedom and Politics · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law
Public Administration and Political Science
Certainty and Order, Liberty and Contingency. The Birth of Social Science as Empirical Political Philosophy
The Claims of Experience
America's Liberal Illiberalism
Redeeming American exceptionalism / Redeeming American political science
Unmaking an exception
Totalitarianism and justice
Leo Strauss and the Dignity of American Political Thought
Ties That Bind
The Two Cultures of Democratic Theory
Still Louis Hartz after All These Years
The Black American Jacobins
New perspectives on Judith Shklar
John Dewey and American Political Science
Corporate Electoral Activity, Constitutional Discourse, and Conceptions of the Individual
| Citations per year | 0.44 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1992 - 2025 (34) |
| Highly cited | No |