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Nature and History in American Political Development : a Debate.

In this inaugural volume of the Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures, political scientist James Ceaser traces the way certain ideas, including nature, history, and religion - which he calls foundational ideas - have been understood and used by statesmen and public intellectuals over the course of American...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ceaser, James W.
Otros Autores: Skocpol, Theda (Autor de introducción, etc.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, March 2008.
Colección:Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foundational concepts and American political development / James W. Ceaser
  • Can we know a foundational idea when we see one? / Jack N. Rakove
  • Replacing foundations with staging: "second-story" concepts and American political development / Nancy L. Rosenblum
  • What if God was one of us? The challenges of studying foundational political concepts / Rogers M. Smith
  • Foundational concepts reconsidered / James W. Ceaser.