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001 2010030132
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020 $a9781442207905 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a1442207906 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9781442207929 (electronic)
020 $a1442207922 (electronic)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn650019931
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050 00 $aJK31$b.C43 2011
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100 1 $aCeaser, James W.
245 10 $aDesigning a polity :$bAmerica's Constitution in theory and practice /$cJames W. Ceaser.
260 $aLanham :$bRowman & Littlefield,$cc2011.
300 $axi, 215 p. ;$c24 cm.
520 $a"James W. Ceaser is our country's leading scholar in American politics. These venturesome essays display his originality, inventive formulations, and theoretical insight."--Harvey Mansfield, Stanford University.
520 $a"James Ceaser, a prominent student of American political thought, never fails to instruct and provoke. The essays included in Designing a Polity are no exception. The eye-opening chapter on Alexis de Tocqueville should spark a reconsideration of the foundations of American democracy and of the distinctive features of Tocqueville's account."--William A. Galston, Ezra Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution --Book Jacket.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 185-206) and index.
505 00 $gMachine generated contents note:$gpt. I$tPolitical Foundations --$g1.$tThe Doctrine of Political Nonfoundationalism --$g2.$tPolitical Foundations in Tocqueville's Democracy in America --$g3.$tAmerican Political Foundations in the Thought of Leo Strauss --$gpt. II$tThe Founders, Constitutional Design, and the Role of Political Science --$g4.$tFame and The Federalist: The American Founders and the Recovery of Political Science --$g5.$tDemagoguery, Statesmanship, and Presidential Politics --$g6.$tDoctrines of Presidential-Congressional Relations --$gpt. III$tModern Conservatism --$g7.$tFour Heads and One Heart: The Modern Conservative Movement --$g8.$tThe Social Construction of the Reagan Legacy --$gpt. IV$tThe American Way of Life --$g9.$tThe Theoretical Origins of Anti-Americanism.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government.
650 0 $aConstitutional history$zUnited States.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy12pdf01/2010030132.html