ABSTRACT
In the United States, political scientists have been captivated by the task of tracing the roots of government, law, and politics in this country to the soil of England or elsewhere and distinguishing between the original design and subsequent adaptations to American experience. American civilization, for example, is organized to encourage a strenuous life of vigorous self-assertion. The piecemeal introduction of science and technology led to the subordination of the productive and destructive potentialities of the new pattern of civilization to the basic structure of the world political arena. Political scientists are among the specialists who are heavily relied upon to supply personnel for information and planning agencies of government at all levels. The study of government often leads to the invention of proposed lines of policy innovation. Political scientists are actively involved at every phase of the decision process of the commonwealth at all levels—national, international, and subnational.
