Political science. Basic issues of American democracy. Edited by Samuel Hendel. (Eighth Edition.) Prentice-Hall, P.0. Box 903, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632, 1976

1977 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-53
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Political Science ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Eighth Edition

scholarly journals James S. Pacy

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (04) ◽  
pp. 890-891
Author(s):  
John P. Burke ◽  
Garrison Nelson ◽  
Alan Wertheimer
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Company Town ◽  
Diverse Community

It is with great sadness that we report the death of James S. Pacy, professor emeritus of political science. Jim died at his home in Burlington, Vermont, on April 21, 2008, of complications from Alzheimer's disease at the age of 77. Jim, of proud Hungarian descent, was born in Caledonia, Ontario, on August 17, 1930. His family emigrated to Manville, New Jersey, when he was two years old. Manville, at the time the company town of asbestos manufacturer Johns-Manville, was an ethnically diverse community just a short drive up from Princeton but in an entirely different world. His hometown was the topic of many a reminiscence and story told by Jim over the years. Manville, for Jim, was always a reminder of the importance of home, ethnic ties, and community. For him, that humble background would lead to greater things.

Leo Strauss and American Democracy: A Response to Wood and Holmes

1991 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lewis Schaefer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Political Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Leo Strauss ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
American Mind ◽  
York Review ◽  
Judaic Studies

Although Leo Strauss spent the better part of his scholarly career in the United States, his name remained essentially unknown in this country during his lifetime outside the rather restricted academic circles of political science and Judaic studies. Only in recent years — owing, positively, to the best-selling status achieved by a book by one of his students, Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind; and negatively, to several critical reviews of his thought and influence in the semi-popular media —has Strauss's name been publicized to a somewhat wider audience. This article is a response to two of the critiques: Gordon Wood's relatively moderate “The Fundamentalists and the Constitution,” published in the New York Review of Books (18 February 1988), and Stephen Taylor Holmes's less restrained “Truths for Philosophers Alone?”, which appeared in the Times Literary Supplement (1–7 December 1989)

God, Woman, and Morality: The Democratic Family in the New Political Science of Alexis de Tocqueville

1995 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-30
Author(s):  
William Mathie
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
American Women ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
New Political Science

Tocqueville says that the superiority of American women is the chief cause of the power and prosperity of American democracy. That superiority is the result of an education that treats women as capable of freedom, but the use of that freedom is to maintain the bonds that restrict women to the household. The present article examines the role of the family and women in the new political science Tocqueville thought necessary for the defence of democratic liberty. It is argued that as the primary influence of democracy upon the family for Tocqueville has been to eliminate the authority of fathers who were the “arbiters of mores” and thereby the defenders of liberty in aristocracy, so democratic liberty depends for him above all upon the new role of women as the makers of mores. Through the agency of women, otherwise fragile religion constitutes an effective limit to the authority of the majority, but what makes it possible for religion to operate through women is their exclusion from the world of commerce, and what maintains this exclusion is the strict conjugal morality that women themselves defend in America. How far the role of women as guardians of democratic liberty might be justified is shown to depend for Tocqueville upon arguments for it that are other than those commonly accepted by American men.

scholarly journals Gratitude Needs a Giver: Why Political Science Needs Intelligent Design

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Brian G. Mattson
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Intelligent Design ◽  
John Calvin ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Classical Liberalism ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
The West ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Nationalism And Identity

This article presents Jonah Goldberg’s Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy. Classical liberalism is under renewed attack from many directions. Many of its most notable defenders claim that the liberal order has no need of distinctively Christian theological resources. This essay scrutinizes that claim and argues for the necessity of a Christian doctrine of providence. KEYWORDS: God, gratitude, Jonah Goldberg, J. Gresham Machen, political science, Western civilization, providence, historicism, John Calvin

Introductory American Government Textbooks: An Anatomical Analysis

1974 ◽  
Vol 7 (03) ◽  
pp. 260-261
Author(s):  
William C. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
American Government ◽  
Anatomical Analysis ◽  
Academic Entrepreneurs ◽  
Preliminary Research ◽  
Introductory Textbooks

The Fall, 1973,PScontained a remarkable exchange. Stephen Stephens charged that Irish and Prothro'sPolitics of American Democracypanders to youthful radical chic proclivities, while the beseiged authors responded with dark hints that Stephens is a closet conservative. In this enlightened age, such an embarrassing, albeit stimulating and entertaining, foray is a kind of academic streaking. The time has come for this subject of textbooks to begin to be clothed with systematic empirical data.Introductory textbooks assume a new level of dramatically increased significance because, as shrewd academic entrepreneurs have observed, “teaching political science” is clearly a growth stock. What with more and more association panels devoted to “teaching,” a special APSA committee, and the new journalTeaching Political Science, we have a wonderful ironic new subject to employ as the discipline continues to pursue what continues to count—publishing. Will the forthcoming articles on intro texts meet the rigorous standards we demand in other fields of political science or will they be of the Stephens—Irish and Prothro variety? In hopes that the former rather than the latter will prevail, herein is offered preliminary research which seeks to put the matter in a proper punctilious perspective.

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