DeToqueville Pages (11-26)

DeToqueville – Pages 11-26 (R).

* On page 16, the author writes, “A new political science is needed for a totally new world.” Why does he think this? What is political science and why is it necessary? How would he go about constructing a new political science? What are the challenges he faces in coming to understand America? Write your reading journal blog-post on this question.

The reason why he might think this way is because he knows how governments have ruled in the past. No matter how smart or bright people are, governments are the ones to guide its civilians.
Political science is “a branch of social science concerned with theory, description, analysis and prediction of political behavior, political systems and politics broadly construed.”
It is necessary so that there can be predictions of the future, being for example in the nations wealth, or in the functions of civilians in any given state.
When it comes to him understanding America, it must be difficult, for people here each have a certain understanding of government, and although they might have left their country to come here and start a better life, a better “nation” where everything would be different, they are still going to go on the basis of what they have lived their lives.