September 6, 2002
How America's Foreign Policy Affects Its Political Science
American political scientists seldom reflect upon the identity of their discipline. They instinctively associate political science with freedom and democracy even as their texts represent the discipline as an objective science. Thus, the self-image of American political science is paradoxically that of detached scholarship attached to particular ideals.
The linkage between political science and democracy is so taken for granted in the profession that it requires little explicit
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