American Political Values

FAIN: FP-10167-78

William Miller
Indiana University (Bloomington, IN 47405-7000)

Seminar for Public Administrators: To consider ways of understanding political ethics, especially in the American and modern setting: despite the United States' unusually successful political heritage, Americans have had a recurrent cynicism about politics and persons engaged in government. Reading includes works by Machiavelli, T. S. Mill, Kant, Thoreau Weber, Niebuhr, Ellul, and classic American documents.