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Fact and Fiction in Government*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Isidor Loeb
Affiliation:
Washington University

Extract

Three decades have elapsed since the first president of the American Political Science Association at its inaugural meeting described the objects and purposes that it should pursue. Some of his successors have discussed various details of this program and others have reviewed the results achieved. Due recognition has been accorded to the significance of historical backgrounds, legal systems, and political theory. In addition, emphasis has been placed upon the importance of an understanding of the government as it actually functions. Hence, much of the work of this Association and its members has been devoted to the investigation and exposition of those customs, procedures, and institutions which, with or without any recognition by constitution or statute, exercise a profound influence over governmental organization and function.

It is natural that during this period significant changes should have appeared in the scope of Political Science and in the character of the techniques employed, with resulting differences in data and conclusions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1934

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* Presidential address delivered before the American Political Science Association at its twenty-ninth annual meeting, Philadelphia, Pa., December 27–29, 1933.

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