American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony
Categories: Politics & Social Sciences
Political scientist Samuel P. Huntington argues that American politics is shaped by a lasting gap between the nation's liberal, egalitarian creed and the institutions needed to govern. He traces recurring eras of "creedal passion," when Americans try to close that ideals-institutions gap—the Revolution, the Jacksonian and Progressive eras, and the 1960s—and holds that this disharmony sits at the center of the American political tradition. Belknap Press published the 1981 study.
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- Fareed Zakaria: “Samuel Huntington's "American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony," because it places the current moment in historical context.”