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'''Charles Merriam''' was a longtime professor of political science at the University of Chicago, a political activist,<ref name="Heritage">{{cite web |url=http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/charles-merriam-explains-progressive-political-science |title=Charles Merriam Explains Progressive Political Science |work=[[Heritage Foundation]] }}</ref> and advisor to president [[FDR]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/centcat/fac/facch15_01.html |title=Charles E. Merriam - Political Science |work=[[University of Chicago]]}}</ref>
==Quotes==
{{cquote|One of the striking features of the last half century in America was the greatly increased attention to the scientific study of politics. In the last twenty-five years, particularly, this tendency was very clearly marked. The foundation of systematic study was laid by Francis Lieber, a German refugee, who came to America following the Revolution of 1848, and was for many years a source of inspiration in inquiry and a teacher of methods of investigation. Following Lieber came studies of the type of Mulford's "Nation" (1870), a striking illustration of the intoxicating effect of undiluted Hegelian philosophy upon the American mind.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9bGHAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA373|last1=Merriam|first1=Charles E.|title=American Political Ideas: Studies in the Development of American Political Thought 1865-1917|date=1920|pages=373}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Tiffany |url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/286671/refounding-america-tiffany-jones-miller |title=The Refounding of America |work=[[National Review]] |date=November 14, 2011 }}</ref>}}
{{cquote|The individualistic ideas of the “[[Natural rights|natural right]]” school of political theory, indorsed in the Revolution, are discredited and repudiated.<ref name="Heritage" /><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gYUmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA307|last1=Merriam|first1=Charles E.|title=A History of American Political Theories|date=1903|pages=307}}</ref>}}
==Works==
*''A History of American Political Theories.'' New York: MacMillan, 1903.
*''American Political Ideas: Studies in the Development of American Political Thought 1865-1917'' New York: MacMillan, 1920.
*''The American Party System: An Introduction to the Study of Political Parties in the United States.'' New York: MacMillan, 1922.
*''Non-Voting: Causes and Methods of Control.'' Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1924.
*''New Aspects of Politics.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1925.
*''The Making of Citizens: A Comparative Study of Methods of Civic Training.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1931.
*''Civic Education in the United States.'' New York: Scribner, 1934.
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==Quotes==
{{cquote|One of the striking features of the last half century in America was the greatly increased attention to the scientific study of politics. In the last twenty-five years, particularly, this tendency was very clearly marked. The foundation of systematic study was laid by Francis Lieber, a German refugee, who came to America following the Revolution of 1848, and was for many years a source of inspiration in inquiry and a teacher of methods of investigation. Following Lieber came studies of the type of Mulford's "Nation" (1870), a striking illustration of the intoxicating effect of undiluted Hegelian philosophy upon the American mind.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9bGHAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA373|last1=Merriam|first1=Charles E.|title=American Political Ideas: Studies in the Development of American Political Thought 1865-1917|date=1920|pages=373}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Tiffany |url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/286671/refounding-america-tiffany-jones-miller |title=The Refounding of America |work=[[National Review]] |date=November 14, 2011 }}</ref>}}
{{cquote|The individualistic ideas of the “[[Natural rights|natural right]]” school of political theory, indorsed in the Revolution, are discredited and repudiated.<ref name="Heritage" /><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gYUmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA307|last1=Merriam|first1=Charles E.|title=A History of American Political Theories|date=1903|pages=307}}</ref>}}
==Works==
*''A History of American Political Theories.'' New York: MacMillan, 1903.
*''American Political Ideas: Studies in the Development of American Political Thought 1865-1917'' New York: MacMillan, 1920.
*''The American Party System: An Introduction to the Study of Political Parties in the United States.'' New York: MacMillan, 1922.
*''Non-Voting: Causes and Methods of Control.'' Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1924.
*''New Aspects of Politics.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1925.
*''The Making of Citizens: A Comparative Study of Methods of Civic Training.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1931.
*''Civic Education in the United States.'' New York: Scribner, 1934.
==references==
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