Download or read book Liberal Democracy and Political Science written by James W. Ceaser and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do political scientists in a liberal democracy bear a special responsibility that goes beyond their academic pursuits? Ceaser, a scholar of American political parties, argues that they do, and he challenges colleagues and students to reexamine what they do as political scientists. He observes that liberal democracy is a compound of two elements not easily wed: constitutionalism and republicanism. The role of political science is to perform the "superintendent" function of keeping these parts together.