Modern America and the legacy of the founding / edited by Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pestritto, Ronald J.

West, Thomas G., 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--United States--History.

Political science.

United States.

History.

United States--Politics and government--20th century.

Politics and government.

United States--Foreign relations--20th century.

International relations.

Physical Description:

xiv, 339 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2007]

Summary:

This is the third and final volume in the series on American political thought edited by Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West. It addresses how the major themes in American political thought-identified in the first two books of the series-have played out in the world of modern American politics. The first volume focused on the founding era, and examined the prevalence of social-compact theory among the founders and implications of that theory for the design of American institutions. The second volume examined the major challenges that nineteenth-century thought posed to the political ideas of the founding, and suggested that these challenges created tensions that would significantly affect the development of American politics in the twentieth century and beyond. In Modern America and the Legacy of the Founding, the contributors address these fundamental tensions: how does modern America resolve the inherent conflict between the original constitutional order and the challenges posed by modern liberalism? They look at the contemporary effects of this fundamental tension on questions of foreign policy and domestic policy, and on questions of our national political institutions and the ideas that shape them today.

Contents:

Foundational concepts in American political thought / James W. Ceaser

The national regulatory state in progressive political theory and twentieth-century constitutional law / Eric R. Claeys

Culture, compassion, and today's progressive party system / Scot J. Zentner

The pulse of democracy : public opinion, opinion polling, and modern democratic theory / Sidney A. Pearson Jr.

Progressivism, the Brownlow commission, and the rise of the administrative state / Donald R. Brand

Transforming formal freedom into effective freedom : Dewey, the New Deal, and the great society / Tiffany Jones Miller

Natural law, our constitution, and our democracy / Peter Augustine Lawler

The American founding and conservative foreign policy today / Christopher C. Burkett

The Bush doctrine : new ways for a new world / Adam Wolfson

American founding principles and American foreign policy / Jeremy Rabkin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0739114166

0739114174

OCLC:

69013423

Publisher Number:

9780739114162

9780739114179