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1931–2017 United States

Theodore J. "Ted" Lowi (July 9, 1931 – February 17, 2017) was an American political scientist. He was the John L.

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Liberal jurisprudence is a contradiction in terms. Liberalism is hostile to law.

The End of Liberalism (1969)

In brief, law, in the liberal view, is too authoritative a use of authority. Authority has to be tentative and accessible to be acceptable. If authority is to be accommodated to the liberal myth that it is not power at all, it must emerge out of individual bargains.

The End of Liberalism (1969)

Too much law would obviously be intolerable to scientific pluralist theory. In a vitally important sense, value-free political science is logically committed to the norm of delegation of power because delegation of power is a self-fulfilling mechanism of prediction in modern political science.

The End of Liberalism (1969)

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