Martin Seymour Lipset is one of the great Comparativists of the postwar period. In the book The First New Nation Lipset deals with two broad themes: the social conditions that make a stable democracy possible, and the extent to which the American experience was representative or exceptional. In a second book American Exceptionalism that was publish twenty two years later, Lipset returns to the issue of American exceptionalism and to questions such as why socialism has never taken hold in the United States, why Americans are resistant to absolute quotas as a way to integrate blacks and other minorities, and why American religion and foreign policy have a moralistic, crusading streak. In this part of the course we are undertaking such an analysis, which is based on two of Lipset's comparative studies: The First New Nation and American Exceptionalism. In this part of the course you are asked to identify the comparative strategies of Lipset. Please prepareExercise 2 for Unit 4 |
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