TY - BOOK ID - 78073891 TI - Designing a polity PY - 2011 SN - 128292267X 9786612922671 1442207922 9781442207929 9781442207905 1442207906 PB - Lanham Rowman & Littlefield DB - UniCat KW - Constitutional history KW - United States KW - Politics and government. KW - Government KW - History, Political KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78073891 AB - In Designing a Polity, James W. Ceaser, one of our leading scholars of American political development, argues for the continuing central role of the Founding within the study of American government. Drawing on essays published over the past 10 years, extensively updated and revised to reflect current politics, Ceaser engages the Founding Fathers, particularly James Madison, emphasizes Alexis de Tocqueville as a model of political inquiry, critiques current and recent theorists such as Richard Rorty and Jacques Derrida, and explores the varieties of contemporary conservative thought. Designing ER -