American Politics The Promise of Disharmony

Name: American Politics The Promise of Disharmony
Price: 19.95 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780674030213

ISBN-10: 0674030214

ISBN-13: 9780674030213

Edition: 1981

Authors: Samuel P. Huntington

List price: $37.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy used: $33.57

Marketplace

3 new & used from $19.95

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

This stunningly persuasive book examines the persistent, radical gap between the promise of American ideals and the performance of American politics. Samuel P. Huntington shows how Americans, throughout their history as a nation, have been united by the democratic creed of liberty, equality, and hostility to authority. At the same time he reveals how, inevitably, these ideals have been perennially frustrated through the institutions and hierarchies required to carry on the essential functions of governing a democratic society. From this antagonism between the ideals of democracy and the realities of power have risen four great political upheavals in American history. Every third…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1981
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 8/15/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.29" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Samuel P. Huntington was Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University, and the author of Political Order in Changing Societies.




The Disharmonic Polity


""Our Practice of Your Principles""


The One, the Two, and the Many:Structural Paradigms of American


Politics Ideals versus Institutions



The American Creed and National Identity Political


Thought in America Sources, Scope, and Stability of the Creed


Political Ideas and National Identity



The Gap: The American Creed versus Political Authority


Consensus and Instability


The Gap in Comparative Perspective



Coping with the Gap


The American Case of Cognitive Dissonance Patte