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A Great University Makes for a Great Department

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2004

Morton A. Kaplan
Morton A. Kaplan
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Morton A. Kaplan is distinguished professor emeritus of political science at the University of Chicago ([email protected])
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In the March 2004 Perspectives on Politics Gabriel Almond, Kristen Renwick Monroe, and Michael Neblo discuss what made the Chicago Political Science Department of the 1920s great. I believe that my distinguished friend and erstwhile colleague, Gabriel Almond, set this important discussion off on a misleading note by talking about a Chicago school of politics, thus inducing an unconvincing discussion of what the leading figures of the department supposedly had in common. The character of the university and the innovative work of its leaders did indeed make the department great. But collective greatness does not in itself constitute a school.In addition to his work in political science, Morton A. Kaplan has published in philosophy.

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PERSPECTIVES
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , December 2004 , pp. 803 - 805
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© 2004 American Political Science Association

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