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Article: Renewing the Political Perspective: Reflections on James Ceaser, Political Science, and Liberal Democracy.
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- Perspectives on Political Science
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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James W. Ceaser has established himself as one of America's most distinguished political scientists--and its most intelligent articulator of the enterprise that he calls "traditional political science." Ceaser is an unabashed partisan of the view that human beings are political animals whose thought and action are shaped, in the most immediate and decisive ways, by the political order or regime. In his two most recent books, Liberal Democracy and Political Science (1990) and Reconstructing America: The Symbol of America in Modern Thought (1997),(1) Ceaser provides the most thoroughgoing contemporary defense of the political perspective against its reduction to the ...