Theodore J. Lowi

thumb| Theodore J. "Ted" Lowi (July 9, 1931 – February 17, 2017) was an American political scientist. He was the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions teaching in the Government Department at Cornell University. His area of research was the American government and public policy. He was a member of the core faculty of the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs. Quotes The End of Liberalism (1969, '79) 2nd ed. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1979) Liberal jurisprudence is a contradiction in terms. Liberalism is hostile to law. Ch. 5, p. 92 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. Ch. 5, p. 92 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. Ch. 5, p. 93 Hostility to law, expressed in the principle of broad and unguided delegation of power, is the weakest timber in the shaky structure of the new public philosophy. This, more than any other single feature of interest-group liberalism, has wrapped public policies in shrouds of illegitimacy and ineffectiveness. This, more than any other feature, has turned liberal vitality into governmental and social pathology. Ch. 5, p. 93 External links Category:1931 births Category:2017 deaths Category:Academics from the United States Category:Political scientists from the United States Category:Cornell University faculty Category:Yale University alumni Category:Jews from the United States