America at Risk: Threats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty

Contributors

Contributors Traci Burch holds appointments as Assistant Professor in Political Science at Northwestern University and Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation . Her recent dissertation, “Punishment and Participation: How Criminal Convictions Threaten American Democracy” won the Robert Noxon Toppan Prize“for the best dissertation presented on a subject in political science” at Harvard University. Her research interests include criminal justice policy, race and ethnic politics, and political behavior. James W. Ceaser is Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1976. He has written several books on American politics and American political thought, including Presidential Selection, Liberal Democracy and Political Science, Reconstructing America, and Nature and History in American Political Development. He is a frequent contributor to the popular press. Robert Faulkner is Professor of Political Science at Boston College, teaching mostly political philosophy. His most recent book is The Case for Greatness: Honorable Ambition and Its Critics; others are Francis Bacon and the Project of Progress, Richard Hooker and the Politics of a Christian England, and The Jurisprudence of John Marshall. He coedited Marshall’s one-volume Life of George Washington and Alexandras Shtromas’s Totalitarianism and the Prospect of World Order. Niall Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard, as well as being a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of many recent books, including The Pity of War: Explaining World War One; / 267 The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700–2000; Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power; Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire; and The War of the World: Twentieth-century Con›ict and the Descent of the West. William A. Galston is Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and College Park Professor at the University of Maryland. He is the author of numerous works on political philosophy, American politics, and public policy. His most recent books include Liberal Pluralism, The Practice of Liberal Pluralism, and Public Matters. From 2003 through 2005 he was Deputy Assistant to President Clinton. His board memberships include the Council for Excellence in Governance and the National Endowment for Democracy. Hugh Heclo is Robinson Professor of Public Affairs at George Mason University , a former Professor of Government at Harvard University, and prior to that a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Most recently he is author of Christianity and American Democracy. He currently serves on the twelve-member Scholars’ Council advising the Librarian of Congress and in 2002 was honored by the American Political Science Association with the John Gaus Award for lifetime achievement in the ‹elds of political science and public administration. For the past twenty-‹ve years, he, his wife and daughter have operated a Christmas tree farm in the northern Shenandoah Valley. Pierre Manent, born 1949 in Toulouse (France), was assistant to Raymond Aron, and now teaches the history of political philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris); in recent years he has been aVisiting Scholar at Boston College.Among his many books are those translated as An Intellectual History of Liberalism, Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy , The City of Man, and Modern Liberty and Its Discontents. His most recent book is A World beyond Politics? A Defense of the Nation-State. Harvey C. Mansfield, the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government at Harvard University, studies and teaches political philosophy. He has written on Edmund Burke and the nature of political parties, on Machiavelli and the invention of indirect government, in defense of a defensible liberalism, and in favor of a constitutional American political science. He has also writ268 / contributors ten on the discovery and development of the theory of executive power, and is a translator of Machiavelli and Tocqueville. He just completed a book on manliness. In 2004 he received the National Humanities Medal from the President. Peter Rodriguez is Associate Professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global economies and markets. He is an economist and specializes in the study of international business, trade, development, and government corruption. His research publications range from theoretical explorations of international trade policies and ‹rm behavior to empirical and practice-based studies of issues in international business. Rodriguez worked as an...