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Louis Fisher: Government and the Academy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2013

Mitchel A. Sollenberger*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Dearborn

Extract

A dozen years before this PS symposium, several political scientists came together in a similar manner to honor Louis Fisher's scholarship and highlight his contributions to the discipline (Spitzer 2000). Many wonderful insights and observations were made to shed light on Fisher's versatility and impact. However, that effort missed an opportunity to highlight a key contribution of Fisher's work: a revival of pre-behavioral era functions and concerns within political science. In many ways Fisher is a throwback to a traditional political science approach where scholars did not select subfields or specialties but sought to engage in broad public debates about governing and, most importantly, believed that normative and empirical studies could and should go hand in hand. With the latter approach Fisher has made his most important contribution to political science.

Type
Symposium: Law and (Disciplinary) Order: A Dialogue about Louis Fisher, Constitutionalism, and Political Science
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2013 

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