business and government

Business and Government

Every country has a government of some sort , but each government is different . They differ in the way they organize and conduct their political life - their mode and style of politics . In his writing on the Italian Renaissance , Jakob Burckhardt indicated that the people of the Renaissance made even the government a work of art (Sternsher 76 The American people make their government , as they make their businesses , a great organizational achievement : they speak of the business and government . This mood continued to be present in American through

the history and reflected above all in American literature . In the Genius of American Politics , Daniel Boorstin was working toward an examining American history in the same terms . Government , Boorstin believed , was a social instrument , and legal philosophy was a method of justifying the interests the economy . Legal logic , as the writer suggested , depicted a rationalization of social interests . The American state system had been formed on the basis of a highly conservative social philosophy . As the writer began searching for the basis of human values , Boorstin was led to the study of American history . Boorstin believed that the philosophical foundations answer the question of social value system

In the Genius of American Politics , Daniel Boorstin analyzes three views that American historians have taken to the subject of government and business in the twentieth century : the Progressive , the counter-Progressive , and the New Left (sometimes called neo-Progressive . The Progressive view dominated from about 1910 to about 1950 . In the period from about 1950 to about 1965 the counter-Progressive view was more prevalent . The Progressives believed in the effectiveness of government effort , while the counter-Progressives were not much for government action ' The main government reality ' in the counter-Progressive opinion was culture , a uniting fifure , rather than class , causing disagreement factor and the main characteristic of the Progressive of American society Therefore critics of counter-Progressive literature called them consensus ' Boorstin is the leading generalizer of consensus as a principle for describing American political history . Boorstin 's interpretations are quite different from other counterparts . Boorstin in some way captured the meaning of America

Daniel J . Boorstin has his view of the history of government in a mixed economy of American ideology . Unlike Wise , Boorstin sees conformity not as the result of universal adherence to a definite ideology but as the result of the actual absence of ideology . Boorstin writes about America 's non-ideological character , which shows a pragmatic adaptation to life on the American land . Boorstin claims that Americans have always been nonideological . Many historians argue this claim and Boorstin 's characterization of The Genius of American Politics , where Boorstin denies the view that revolutionary generation was profoundly dogmatic was deeply fascinated with political ideology - the ideology of Republicanism (Robert 54

In The Genius of American Politics , Boorstin introduces a long , good thesis which one can clarify only with great effort . Boorstin thinks that because American people did not use political theory to build their society , theory is therefore fruitless to explain...