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20th Century Accounts of American Citizenship

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posted on 2023-05-17, 23:41 authored by Jed DonoghueJed Donoghue, White, B
Accounts of citizenship by Presidents of the American Political Science Association (APSA) are examined through Mannheim’s sociology of knowledge. We use Marshall as a platform to reconceptualise the dynamics of Mannheim’s three incommensurable ‘thought styles’: one liberal; one conservative; and one dialectically social. We suggest on this basis that American political citizenship in the twentieth century entails three incompatible but concurrent ‘thought styles’, that involve a triple helix of political rationalities (see White and Donoghue 2003). The model is tested in a longitudinal study of ‘citizenship and democracy’ in regular social scientific usage. The empirical material comprises the presidential addresses to the American Political Science Association (APSA) published in the American Political Science Review (APSR) from 1906 to 1997. The findings suggest that the addresses by the presidents of the Political Science Association of America invoke intertwining rationalities that relate twentieth century citizenship to classical political discourses.

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Publication title

International Journal of Social Science Studies

Pagination

57-65

ISSN

2324-8033

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Redfame Publishing Inc.

Place of publication

United States

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Copyright 2014 Redfame Publishing Inc.

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  • Open

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Citizenship and national identity

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