John G. Gunnell was Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He was the author of numerous books and articles dealing with political theory and the philosophy and history of political and social science. His latest book is Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry: Channeling Wittgenstein.

"Imagining the American Polity is a vivid and engaging study of the discourse of pluralist democracy in the history of political science. It tracks the varieties of twentieth-century pluralism out of debates over 'the state' and convincingly demonstrates the genealogical ties that bind Laski and the Progressive Era to the behavioral revolutionaries of the fifties to today's multiculturalists. There is nothing quite like it in the literature on democratic theory, much less on the history of political science that John Gunnell has already done so much to advance." — James Farr, Northwestern University

• Preface to the Second EditionIntroduction to the Second Edition1. The Democratic Concept2. The State of Democracy3. The Discovery of American Pluralism4. The Theory of Democratic Pluralism5. From Pluralism to Liberalism6. Pluralism ReduxAppendix: Telling the Story of Political ScienceIndex

John G. Gunnell was Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He was the author of numerous books and articles dealing with political theory and the philosophy and history of political and social science. His latest book is Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry: Channeling Wittgenstein.

"Imagining the American Polity is a vivid and engaging study of the discourse of pluralist democracy in the history of political science. It tracks the varieties of twentieth-century pluralism out of debates over 'the state' and convincingly demonstrates the genealogical ties that bind Laski and the Progressive Era to the behavioral revolutionaries of the fifties to today's multiculturalists. There is nothing quite like it in the literature on democratic theory, much less on the history of political science that John Gunnell has already done so much to advance." — James Farr, Northwestern University

• Preface to the Second EditionIntroduction to the Second Edition1. The Democratic Concept2. The State of Democracy3. The Discovery of American Pluralism4. The Theory of Democratic Pluralism5. From Pluralism to Liberalism6. Pluralism ReduxAppendix: Telling the Story of Political ScienceIndex

John G. Gunnell was Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He was the author of numerous books and articles dealing with political theory and the philosophy and history of political and social science. His latest book is Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry: Channeling Wittgenstein.

"Imagining the American Polity is a vivid and engaging study of the discourse of pluralist democracy in the history of political science. It tracks the varieties of twentieth-century pluralism out of debates over 'the state' and convincingly demonstrates the genealogical ties that bind Laski and the Progressive Era to the behavioral revolutionaries of the fifties to today's multiculturalists. There is nothing quite like it in the literature on democratic theory, much less on the history of political science that John Gunnell has already done so much to advance." — James Farr, Northwestern University

• Preface to the Second EditionIntroduction to the Second Edition1. The Democratic Concept2. The State of Democracy3. The Discovery of American Pluralism4. The Theory of Democratic Pluralism5. From Pluralism to Liberalism6. Pluralism ReduxAppendix: Telling the Story of Political ScienceIndex