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The first duty imposed on those who now direct society is to educate democracy; to put, if possible, new life into its beliefs; to purify its mores; to control its actions; gradually to substitute understanding of statecraft for present inexperience and knowledge of its true interests for blind instincts; to adapt government to the needs of time and place; and to modify it as men and circumstances require. A new political science is needed for a world itself quite new.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

 

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Loren LomaskyLoren Lomasky

Loren Lomasky is Cory Professor of Political Philosophy, Policy and Law, and Director of the Political Philosophy, Policy and Law Program at the University of Virginia. His book Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community (Oxford, 1987) established his reputation as a leading advocate of a rights-based approach to moral and social issues. He co-authored with Geoffrey Brennan Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference (Cambridge, 1993) and co-edited Politics and Process: New Essays in Democratic Theory (Cambridge, 1989) with Brennan. Lomasky has been the recipient of many awards including the 1991 Matchette Prize, and he has held research appointments sponsored by the NEH, the Center for the Study of Public Choice, the Australian National University, and Bowling Green’ s Social Philosophy and Policy Center.

 

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