Interdisplinary Perspective of American Government

The way history and political science connect to study of American government is that they appear to provide a means by which proposed or enacted government policies, particularly those that are in some manner identified with American ideals or the American character, can be examined and, some would hope, exposed, on their merits as inconsistent with ordinary logic on one hand, and inconsistent with pious declarations of adherence to American ideals of personal responsibility and liberty on the other. The task of the analyst informed by both history and political science would be to present an organized interpretation of the politics and ideology of analogous conditions of history and society to help explain the structure, content, and atmosphere of specific issues, to illustrate what is believed or acted on and why, and the implications of accommodating such beliefs and acts. Formal acquaintance with the imponderables of historical behavior of persons and groups and nations can also tend to put a face of intensely felt human experience on highly structured, quantititative analyses to which the scientific method aspect of political science has often been prone. In other words, history might lend an attitude of urgency and moral weight to interp

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t issue detailed prescriptions or local people will invariably do the wrong thing". When he wants to prove that the culture is not monolithic enough, he cites the negative influence of cultural elites who challenge the romantic idealism of America's founding fathers. Multiculturalism, he says, "switched the emphasis from proclaiming allegiance to the common culture to proclaiming the virtues (real or imagined) of a particular ethnicity, sect, or tribe". How the criticism of national-government hegemony squares with what one knows from media reports to be Gingrich's preference for a constitutional amendment that would so distrust women either as individuals or as organized groups to make decisions about whether to bear children as to prohibit their personal discretion about terminating an unwanted pregnancy is unclear from the text; apparently they can invariably be expected to do the wrong thing. According to Davis, American Studies scholars "cannot allow Fukiyama and Bloom to be the only ones who explain American culture, or the place of the United States in the world". The potential for direct experience by much of the populace of the consequences of enacted ideology that is predicated of a particular view of Americanism illu
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