ABSTRACT
The life of Daniel Elazar was intimately tied to his deep affections for that which is best in the United States and Israel. It should be said plainly that his personal allegiances as a Jew and an American were linked to his professional cares and concerns. The classical sociological paradigm sought to explain the character and functioning of an economy in terms of the religious and political systems found within a nation. Elazar is less concerned with seeing either polity or theology as an explanation for economic change, but as the inherent duality that defines civilization. Elazar marches with John Dewey in philosophy and the Talcott Parsons in sociology, along a path of an America dedicated to multiple varieties of the civil and religious experiences. Elazar in his final synthesis helped to reshape our personal maps of the political landscape.
