ABSTRACT
Social science and political science are urgently needed for the next great stage in the advancement of the human race. It is odd and perhaps even tragic that political science, the new academic discipline that dealt most earnestly with the perennial questions of leadership, human nature, and Reinhold Niebuhr and Walter Lippmann in the twentieth, developed as it did during the twentieth century. The new methods of science and mathematics, English scholar Karl Pearson said, could be applied directly to the study and teaching of citizenship. In the 1930s Charles Merriam asked how one should understand and teach about citizenship and self-government as democracy lost ground in the world. The American Political Science Association, through the general acceptance—for more than a century, since its beginning in 1903—had created and sustained an orthodoxy regarding human nature and the nature of government, and a consequent orthodoxy on the nature and teaching of citizenship in a self-governing polity.
