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Pluralism
at Yale
The
Culture of Political Science in America
Richard
M. Merelman
Pluralism and the American political
landscape—how political theories emerge and are transmitted
Pluralism at Yale : The Culture of Political Science in America
explores the relationship between personal experience and academic
theories of American politics. Through a detailed examination
of the Yale University Department of Political Science between
1955 and 1970, including interviews with many of the political
scientists involved, this book traces the way "pluralism,"
a predominately optimistic theory of American democracy which
the Yale department helped to develop in those years, helped
to support the American political regime. Merelman also analyzes
the impact of social and political events on the decline of Yale
pluralism and describes pluralism's continued political relevance
today. Included are discussions of McCarthyism, the Civil Rights
Movement, and the Vietnam War.
Richard
Merelman
is professor emeritus of political science at the University
of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Partial Visions:
Culture and Politics in Britain, Canada, and the United States,
also published by the University of Wisconsin Press, as well
as Making Something of Ourselves and Representing Black
Culture.
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June
2003
336 pp. 6 x 9
ISBN 978-0-299-18410-0
Cloth $55.00 s
ISBN 978-0-299-18414-8
Paper $26.95 s
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