{"product_id":"american-politicsthe-promise-of-disharmony-9780674030213","title":"American PoliticsThe Promise of Disharmony","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHuntington examines the persistent gap between the promise of American ideals and the performance of American politics. He shows how Americans have always been united by the democratic creed of liberty, equality, and hostility to authority, but how these ideals have been frustrated through institutions and hierarchies needed to govern a democracy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHuntington’s underappreciated 1981 masterpiece…Describes an ineradicable tension between America’s ideals and the actual practice of our politics…Offers insights about our own moment. -- Yuval Levin * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eMore than his famous ‘clash of civilizations’ thesis of the 1990s, it is this lesser-known 1981 work that most clearly speaks to our time. Huntington points to the gap between the values of the American creed (liberty, equality, individualism, constitutionalism) and the government’s efforts to live up to those values as the central tension of national life. -- Carlos Lozada * Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003e[A] brilliant book… [Huntington addresses] contemporary concerns with a masterly command of theory and history which will ensure his book an enduring place as a work of scholarship. * The New Republic *\u003cbr\u003eAn illuminating book, ambitious in range and ingenious in analysis… Filled with imaginative insights. * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eAn exceptional book, combining political theory with American history and contemporary policy analysis in a fashion that will challenge and inform any reader interested in the American experience. * Boston Globe *\u003cbr\u003e[Huntington] squarely confronts the problem of legitimating American power at home and abroad and argues persuasively…for his exceptionalist political vision. Few have the courage—fewer the talent—to pose and systematically answer the critical questions that Huntington raises. * American Political Science Review *\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Huntington has brilliantly set forth the persisting conflict between American ideals and American institutions which can energize our society or paralyze it, depending on whether it is understood for what it is. A liberating insight; a brilliant book. -- Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan\u003cbr\u003eThis controversial book will spark considerable debate about American values, the origins and meaning of reform, and foreign policy. It will influence current discussions of the United States, and it will change the way we think about American political and social behavior. -- Seymour Martin Lipset, Stanford University\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Huntington is not only a preeminent scholar of modern governing institutions and their underlying ideas, democratic and otherwise; he has also often served as adviser to policymakers in several nations, including our own. His book should be read by everyone who is concerned with the capacity of our institutions to meet the fearful challenges they now face. -- Austin Ranney, American Enterprise Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Disharmonic Polity   \"Our Practice of Your Principles\"   The One, the Two, and the Many: Structural Paradigms of American Politics  Ideals versus Institutions     2. The American Creed and National Identity   Political Thought in America  Sources, Scope, and Stability of the Creed  Political Ideas and National Identity     3. The Gap: The American Creed versus Political   Authority Consensus and Instability  The Gap in Comparative Perspective     4. Coping with the Gap   The American Case of Cognitive Dissonance  Patterns of Response   The Gap and American Political Style     5. The Politics of Creedal Passion   Creedal Passion Periods in American History  The Climate of Creedal Passion  Creedal Conflict: The Movement and the Establishment  Reform and its Limits  Political Earthquakes and Realignment     6. The Sources of Creedal Passion   Why Creedal Passion Periods?   General Sources: Comparable Phenomena in Other Societies   Specific Sources: The Timing of Creedal Passion Periods   Original Sources: The Roots of It All in the English Revolution   The Protestantism of American Politics     7. The S\u0026amp;S Years, 1960-1975   From the Fifties to the Seventies: The Changing Pattern of Response  Complacency and the End(?) of Ideology  Interlude of Hypocrisy, Surge of Moralism  The Mobilization of Protest  The Dynamics of Exposure  The Legacies  Reform and the IvI Gap  Institutional Realignment  The Misuse and Erosion of Authority  Cynicism and the Restoration of Authority     8. The Viability of American Ideals and Institutions   The Future of the Gap  History versus Progress?  America versus the World?  Power and Liberty: The Myth of American Repression  The Promise of Disappointment     Notes   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403534180695,"sku":"9780674030213","price":27.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674030213.jpg?v=1730483753","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-politicsthe-promise-of-disharmony-9780674030213","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}