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"Following one of the most contentious and truth-challenged presidential administrations and elections in U.S. history, there has never been a greater need for an American government text like this--evidence-based, critically thoughtful, and contemporary in tone and touch. This text teaches students to think analytically by presenting current political science theories and research in answering the engaging, big questions facing American politics today. It serves as an introduction to the discipline-covering the Constitution, political behavior, formal and informal institutions, and public policy--by reflecting the theoretical developments and types of empirical inquiry conducted by researchers. For introductory courses in American government, this text covers theory and methods as well"--

In his most recent books, Liberal Democracy and Political Science (1990) & Reconstructing America: The Symbol of America in Modern Thought (1997), James Ceaser argues that the US, as a nation, has true political science as its basis. This political science, which supports the regime's independence, allows individuals to make decisions about their own destiny. Ceaser's views directly conflict with the popular thinking of postmodern philosophers & literary critics who have turned the US into a symbolic abstraction. Though Ceaser's view of "traditional political science" perhaps has its flaws, this in no way detracts from the important fact that Ceaser remains a true political thinker in an age dominated by the abstract. K. A. Larsen

"Party Families and Political Ideologies" published on by Oxford University Press.

PROFESSOR LAZARSFELD ONCE REFERRED TO SOCIOLOGY AS BEING IN A sense a residuary legatee, the surviving part of a very general study, out of which specializations have successively been shaped.The same might be said of political science. In the West the first deliberate and reflective studies of political life were made in Greece at the end of the th century BC, and in the succeeding century. The histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, some of the pamphlets attributed to Xenophon, above all the normative and empirical studies of Plato and Aristotle were among the direct ancestors of contemporary political science. Parallel examples are to be found in the intellectual history of China, India and Islam. It seems that at certain stages in the development of great societies questions of legitimacy, power and leadership assume supreme importance; and intense intellectual effort, using the best analytical tools available, is devoted to the study of man as brought to a focus in the study of politics.