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Myth and American politics

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Accumulating tensions call into question the sustainability of the American political system, which ultimately depends on public faith in the justifying myth. This article takes sustainability as a policy problem, and attempts to reconstruct the significance of recent, scattered events in American politics from the standpoint of central theory in the policy sciences. The resulting construct emphasizes the significance of intellectuals in the decision processes of modern society and the continuing task of the policy sciences.

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Brunner, R.D. Myth and American politics. Policy Sci 27, 1–18 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00999596

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