Read the Chapters from James Ceaser's "Liberal Democracy and Political Science."
How does Ceaser's understanding of de Tocqueville's "new science" compare with the description by Alan Ryan (On Tocqueville; one of our texts for this class)?
Write a 5-7 page essay characterizing the extent of the differences in the two depictions and what contemporary relevance Tocqueville has for modern political science.
(Chapter 4 is optional reading, but it does explain several of the differences in modern schools of political science.)
Resources :
Chapter 3 : Traditional Polotical Science
Chapter 2 : Liberal Democracy and Polotical Science By James W. Ceaser
Chapter 5 : Reconstructing Political Science