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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Harvey Claflin Mansfield Jr. is an American political philosopher. He was the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he taught since 1962. He has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships and has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center; he also received the National Humanities Medal in 2004 and delivered the Jefferson Lecture in 2007. He is a Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is notable for his generally conservative stance on political issues in his writings.
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- The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition . By Pocock J. G. A.. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975. Pp. 602. $22.50, cloth; $11.50, paper.) (1977) (1699)
- Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Modern Executive Power (1990) (147)
- Discourses on Livy (2019) (135)
- New Dimensions of Political Economy (1967) (120)
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (2000) (96)
- Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy (1996) (91)
- The Prince: Second Edition (1998) (75)
- Machiavelli's Virtue (1996) (69)
- Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy (1979) (61)
- Self-interest Rightly Understood (1995) (61)
- Democracy and populism (1995) (59)
- America's Constitutional Soul (1991) (54)
- Statesmanship and Party Government: A Study of Burke and Bolingbroke (1965) (53)
- On the Impersonality of the Modern State: A Comment on Machiavelli's Use of Stato (1983) (42)
- Hobbes and the Science of Indirect Government (1971) (40)
- The spirit of liberalism (1978) (34)
- History: Choice and Commitment (1978) (32)
- Arms and the State (1959) (31)
- Machiavelli's Political Science (1981) (28)
- Party Government and the Settlement of 1688 (1964) (22)
- I. Strauss's Machiavelli (1975) (20)
- Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law (1985) (20)
- Federal Executive Reorganization: Thirty Years of Experience (1969) (16)
- Industrial Mobilization for War: History of the War Production Board and Predecessor Agencies, 1940-1945. (1948) (16)
- Tocqueville's new political science (2006) (14)
- A short history of OPA (1948) (13)
- Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction (2010) (12)
- Renaissance Civic Humanism: Bruni and Machiavelli on civic humanism (2000) (10)
- Lyndon B. Johnson, a memoir (1982) (10)
- The prince . The social contract (1999) (10)
- On the Political Character of Property in Locke (1979) (10)
- The Modern Doctrine of Executive Power (1987) (8)
- On the Majesty of the Law (2013) (8)
- The Comptroller General (1939) (8)
- Selected letters of Edmund Burke (1984) (8)
- Arms and the State: Civil-Military Elements in National Policy (1959) (8)
- Reorganizing the Federal Executive Branch: The Limits of Institutionalization (1970) (8)
- Machiavelli's Florentine Histories (1988) (7)
- Democracy Without Politics (2012) (7)
- Sir Lewis Namier Considered (1962) (6)
- Tocqueville's Machiavellianism (2014) (6)
- Modern and Medieval Representation (1968) (6)
- The partial eclipse of manliness (1998) (6)
- Congress against the President (1975) (5)
- A Student's Guide to Political Philosophy (2001) (5)
- Tocqueville on Religion and Liberty (2016) (5)
- A Mini-Symposium: President Nixon's Proposals for Executive Reorganization (1974) (5)
- "Party and Sect in Machiavelli's Florentine Histories” (1972) (5)
- "Machiavelli's New Regime” (1970) (5)
- The Legacy of the Late Sixties (1997) (4)
- Whether Party Government is Inevitable (1965) (4)
- The Prestige of Public Employment (1967) (4)
- The Underhandedness of Affirmative Action (1984) (4)
- Machiavelli's The Prince (1985) (4)
- The comptroller general : a study in the law and practice of financial administration (1939) (4)
- The Forms and Formalities of Liberty (1983) (4)
- III. Reply to Pocock (1975) (4)
- The Case for the Strong Executive (2007) (4)
- Necessity in the Beginning of Cities (1972) (3)
- Liberty and Virtue in the American Founding. (2003) (3)
- The Uses of History@@@British War Economy (1951) (3)
- Strauss on The Prince (2013) (3)
- What Tocqueville Says to Liberals and Conservatives Today (2001) (3)
- Constitutional Government: The Soul of Modern Democracy. (1987) (3)
- The American Election: Entitlements Versus Opportunity (1985) (3)
- The Quest for Accountability@@@The GAO: The Quest for Accountability in American Government@@@Cases in Accountability: The Work of the GAO@@@Watchdog on the Potomac: A Study of the Comptroller General of the United States@@@The Effectiveness of Legislative Program Review (1981) (3)
- Some Doubts about Feminism (1997) (3)
- “Liberalism and Big Government: Tocqueville’s Analysis” (1999) (3)
- A Great and Wretched City: Promise and Failure in Machiavelli’s Florentine Political Thought. Mark Jurdjevic. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 296 pp. $49.95. (2015) (2)
- The Formal Constitution: A Comment on Sotirios A. Barber (1997) (2)
- “Nature and Fact in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America” (2004) (2)
- How to Understand Politics; What the Humanities can say to Science (2007) (2)
- Field administration of wartime rationing (1947) (2)
- "The Cuckold in Machiavelli's Mandragola” in Vickie B. Sullivan (Editor) (2000) (2)
- Machiavelli in Hell . By Sebastian de Grazia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. 497p. $55.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. - The Machiavellian Cosmos . By Anthony J. Parel. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. 203p. $30.00. (1993) (2)
- Studies in industrial price control (1947) (2)
- The American Election: Towards Constitutional Democracy? (1981) (2)
- Social Science and the Constitution (1990) (2)
- The Legislative Veto and the Deportation of Aliens (1941) (2)
- "Rationality and Representation in Burke's Bristol Speech” (1964) (2)
- Innovations and Trends in the Study of American Politics (1970) (2)
- II. The Major in Political Science (1947) (2)
- Acceptance address: Harvard’s virtue (2002) (2)
- History, Merit, and the Politics-Administration Boundary@@@The Republican Era: 1869-1901, A Study in Administrative History@@@History of the United States Civil Service (1959) (2)
- Sir Lewis Namier Again Considered (1964) (2)
- The Unfinished Revolution (1994) (2)
- The President, the Budget, and Congress: Impoundment and the 1974 Budget Act . By James P. Pfiffner. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1979. Pp. xii + 165. $17.50, cloth; $8.00, paper.) (1980) (2)
- The Struggle for Survival: A Chronicle of Economic Mobilization in World War II . By Eliot Janeway. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 1951. Pp. ix, 382. Chronicles of America, Vol. 53, $2.50; trade ed. $5.00.) (1953) (1)
- Corruption, Conflict and Power in the Works and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli.Alfredo BonadeoMachiavelli and the Art of Renaissance History.Peter E. Bondanella. (1975) (1)
- "The Absent Executive in Aristotle's Politics” in P. Schramm and T. Silver (1984) (1)
- Problems in price control : pricing techniques (1947) (1)
- Trade Associations and Industrial Control: A Critique of the NRA (1934) (1)
- Republicanizing the Executive (1987) (1)
- The Right of Revolution (1976) (1)
- "Marx on Aristotle: Freedom, Money and politics” (1980) (1)
- Federalism: Mature and Emergent. Edited by Arthur W. Macmahon. (Garden City: Doubleday and Co. 1955. Pp. xi. 557. $7.50.) (1955) (1)
- Majority Tyranny in Aristotle and Tocqueville (2000) (1)
- Hobbes on Liberty and Executive Power (1987) (1)
- The Teaching of Citizenship (1984) (1)
- UNRRA; The History of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Prepared by a special staff under the direction of George Woodbridge. (New York: Columbia University Press. 1950. 3 vols. Pp. xxxv, 518; xii, 601; xiii, 520. $15.00.) (1951) (1)
- Problems in price control : pricing standards (1947) (1)
- Machiavelli and the Modern Executive (1988) (1)
- Problems in price control : national office organization and management (1947) (1)
- Gentlemen's gentleman (1997) (1)
- 6 Cucumber Liberalism (1978) (1)
- Human rights in emergencies (1992) (1)
- Distortion Control During Heat Treatment of Aircraft and Missile Components (1962) (1)
- Athenian Democracy: Modern Mythmakers and Ancient Theorists . By Arlene W. Saxonhouse. Notre Dame and London: Notre Dame University Press, 1996. 192p. $26.95. (1998) (1)
- Real Change in the USA (1995) (1)
- Volunteers in OPA (1947) (1)
- The American Election: Another Reagan Triumph (1989) (1)
- Chapter 1. Machiavelli and the Discovery of Fact (2018) (1)
- Executive Power and the Passion for Virtue (1992) (1)
- Affirmative Action Versus The Constitution (1986) (1)
- Government (1942) (1)
- Report of the Committee on Journals (1968) (1)
- The Media World and Democratic Representation (1979) (1)
- Individualism and Social Responsibility (1994) (1)
- The Correspondence of Edmund Burke. Volume V, July 1782-June 1789 (1966) (1)
- 3 Disguised Liberalism (1978) (1)
- Civil—Military Relations in the United States (1960) (1)
- Democracy in the Administrative State. By Emmett S. Redford. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. Pp. 211. $5.00; paper, $2.25.) (1969) (1)
- 3. Machiavelli and the Idea of Progress (2019) (1)
- Committee on Journals American Political Science Association: Report (1969) (1)
- “Burke’s Conservatism.” (2005) (1)
- The Ambivalence of Executive Power (1981) (1)
- The Forms of Liberty (1986) (1)
- The Religious Issue and the Origin of Modern Constitutionalism (1978) (1)
- Pride versus Interest in American Conservatism Today (1987) (1)
- Liberal Democracy as a Mixed Regime (1975) (1)
- Dimensions of Freedom . By Felix E. Oppenheim. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1961. Pp. 242. $6.50.) (1962) (1)
- The American Congressional Election: Reagan’s Recalcitrant Economy (1983) (1)
- Alexis de Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction (2010) (1)
- 4. Democratic despotism (2010) (0)
- Studies in War Economics Prepared at the Oxford University Institute of Statistics: A Selection of Articles Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Institute of Statistics and Other Periodicals (1949) (0)
- PSR volume 47 issue 4 Front matter (1953) (0)
- Modernizing the State Legislature (1967) (0)
- 1. Tocqueville’s democratic providence (2010) (0)
- Research in Political Science; The Work of the Panels of the Research Committee, American Political Science Association. Edited by Ernest S. Griffith. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1948. Pp. vi, 239. $3.00). (1949) (0)
- Political Theory as Historical Artifact (1995) (0)
- Between the New Deal and the Reagan Revolution (1991) (0)
- Responsibility and its Perversions (1994) (0)
- The Revival of Constitutionalism (1989) (0)
- Toward a Definition of Editorial Policy for the Review (1962) (0)
- Whatever happened to scepticism (1999) (0)
- Dimensions of Freedom.Felix E. Oppenheim (1962) (0)
- Translating Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (2000) (0)
- Machiavelli . By Viroli Maurizio. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 247p. $55.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. (1999) (0)
- Alexis de Tocqueville's Vision of Blacks in the United States (2001) (0)
- Economic Freedom and Human Flourishing: Perspectives from Political Philosophy (2016) (0)
- Commentary on Gerson (1987) (0)
- Uses of ambition (2002) (0)
- Robert Bireley. The Counter-Reformation Prince: Anti-Machiavellianism or Catholic Statecraft in Early Modern Europe. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1990. Pp. xii, 309. $39.95 (1992) (0)
- Introduction: a new kind of liberal (2010) (0)
- Citizenship: Ancient and Modern (1982) (0)
- "The State of Harvard” review article (1990) (0)
- Arthur Whittier Macmahon (1980) (0)
- THE MINIMUM RATE POWER AND THE CONTROL OF CARRIER COMPETITION (1936) (0)
- A Plea for Constitutional Conservatism (2007) (0)
- Political Parties and American Constitutionalism (1992) (0)
- Shall the APSA Have Organized Subfields? (1977) (0)
- Thomas Hobbes in His Time. Edited by Ralph Ross, Herbert W. Schneider, and Theodore Waldman. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1975. Pp. 150. $7.50.) (1977) (0)
- The lake cargo coal rate controversy : a study in governmental adjustment of a sectional dispute (1933) (0)
- WENDELL, MITCHELL. Relations Between the Federal and State Courts. Pp. 298. New York: Columbia University Press, 1949. $4.00 (1950) (0)
- Sound Advice from Yale (1972) (0)
- Studies on Machiavelli.Myron P. Gilmore (1974) (0)
- PSR volume 47 issue 3 Front matter (1953) (0)
- 5. Rational administration (2010) (0)
- The Anti-Power Ethic (1982) (0)
- Only A Conspiracy Theory‥‥ (1969) (0)
- “L’Education du Prince de Machiavel” (2002) (0)
- PSR volume 58 issue 3 Front matter (1964) (0)
- 1. The Cuckold in Machiavelli’s Mandragola (2017) (0)
- Changes That Don't Improve Matters (1971) (0)
- Choice and Consent in the American Experiment (1987) (0)
- Problems in price control : changing production patterns (1947) (0)
- "Democracy and the Great Books” an exchange with Richard Rorty (1988) (0)
- Independence and Accountability for Federal Contractors and Grantees (1975) (0)
- 2 Defending Liberalism (1978) (0)
- What Is Politics?—A Dialogue between Profs. Dongfeng Tao and Harvey Claflin Mansfield (2013) (0)
- “Responsibility versus Self-Expression” in Robert A. Licht, ed., (1993) (0)
- Dissidence et philosophie au moyen age: Dante et ses antecedents. By Fortin Ernest L.. (Montreal: Bellarmin, and Paris: J. Vrin, 1981. Pp. 201. $13.50, paper.) (1983) (0)
- Program Budgeting: Theory and Practice with Particular Reference to the U. S. Department of the Army. By Mosher Frederick C.. (Chicago: Public Administration Service. 1954. Pp. xiii, 258. $5.00.) (1954) (0)
- HALE, ROBERT L. Freedom Through Law: Public Control of Private Governing Power. Pp. xvi, 591. New York: Co lumbia University Press, 1952. $7.50 (1953) (0)
- 4 Liberalism in Moderation (1978) (0)
- A new feminism (2007) (0)
- Innovations and Trends in the Study of (2016) (0)
- The Twofold Meaning of Unum (1995) (0)
- The Vision Thing (1992) (0)
- Turning Point: Is Lucretius the gateway to the modern world? (2012) (0)
- Power and Morals. By Martin J. Hillenbrand. (New York: Columbia University Press. 1949. Pp. xiv, 217. $3.25.) (1949) (0)
- Harvard’s Last Conservative: An Interview with Harvey Mansfield (2023) (0)
- PAUL Y. HAMMOND. Organizing for De fense: The American Military Establish ment in the Twentieth Century. Pp. xi, 403. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton Uni versity Press, 1961. $7.95 (1961) (0)
- ! umos and Psychophysics in Descartes ’ s Passions of the Soul (2010) (0)
- A Truly American Scholar (2012) (0)
- In Love with Politics (2016) (0)
- Less means less (1995) (0)
- A Great Society? Edited by Bertram M. Gross. (New York: Basic Books, Inc. 1968. Pp. 362. $8.50.) (1970) (0)
- "Returning to the Founders: the debate on the Constitution” (1993) (0)
- Review Article of J.R. Pole's Political Representation in England and the Origins of the American Republic (1968) (0)
- Review Article of George Gilder's Men and Marriage (1987) (0)
- 3. Informal democracy (2010) (0)
- PSR volume 58 issue 2 Front matter (1964) (0)
- The Silence of a Mechanism (1993) (0)
- PSR volume 47 issue 2 Front matter (1953) (0)
- Bruni, Machiavel et l'humanisme civique (2001) (0)
- Providence and Democracy / Harvey C. Mansfield. (2011) (0)
- Special Symposium: The Governance of the Association (1969) (0)
- "Professional Education and the Examined Life: Defining Terms” (1993) (0)
- Equality and comfort (1994) (0)
- The British Constitution: The Rule of Gentlemen (2017) (0)
- Book Review: Polybius (1975) (0)
- Reply to Our Critics (2003) (0)
- Book Review:Coleridge and the Idea of the Modern State David P. Calleo (1968) (0)
- "Representation: The Perennial Issues” (1978) (0)
- The Republican Form of Government in The Federalist (2020) (0)
- Thomas Jefferson as Social Scientist. By Benson C. Randolph. (Cranberry, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1971. 333 pp. $10.00.)Thomas Jefferson: A Well-Tempered Mind. By Binger Carl. (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1970. Pp. 209. $6.95.) (1973) (0)
- Wallace Stanley Sayre (1973) (0)
- PSR volume 58 issue 4 Front matter (1964) (0)
- PSR volume 51 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1957) (0)
- “Tocqueville’s New Political Science” with Delba Winthrop (2006) (0)
- "Constitutional Fideism” review article (1988) (0)
- The American Congressional Election (1983) (0)
- Problems in price control : legal phases (1947) (0)
- ADMINISTRATIVE FINALITY AND FEDERAL EXPENDITURES (1938) (0)
- Harvey C. Mansfield, Sr. (1988) (0)
- Chapter 1. Machiavelli’s Enterprise (2016) (0)
- [For an American Political Science Association]: Comment (1968) (0)
- Anne Meyers Cohler (1990) (0)
- Essays in Political Theory: Presented to George H. Sabine . Edited by Milton R. Konvitz and Arthur E. Murphy. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 1948. Pp. viii, 333. $4.90.) (1949) (0)
- Book Reviews and Notes - New Dimensions of Political Economy . By Walter W. Heller. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1966. Pp. viii, 203. $3.50.) (1968) (0)
- Judicial Review of the Comptroller General (1935) (0)
- Tough Times for the President (1992) (0)
- PSR volume 56 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1962) (0)
- Political Scientist, Par Excellence (2012) (0)
- A debatable fusion (1993) (0)
- Pride versus Interest in American Conservatism Today (1987) (0)
- 2. Tocqueville’s praise of democracy (2010) (0)
- VINCENT DAVIS. The Admirals Lobby. Pp. xvi, 329. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1967. $7.50 (1968) (0)
- TRANSLATORS’ INTRODUCTION (2019) (0)
- Burke and Machiavelli on Principles in Politics (1967) (0)
- Presidential Agency OWMR; The Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. By Somers Herman Miles. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1950. Pp. xiii, 238. $4.50.) (1950) (0)
- Liberty and virtue in the American Founding / Harvey C. Mansfield. (2008) (0)
- "I Have a Dream": Ideas for Rebuilding American Culture (1996) (0)
- Problems in price control : stabilization subsidies (1947) (0)
- Lives, Liberties and the Public Good: New Essays in Political Theory for Maurice Cranston (1987) (0)
- How Dangerous Is Machiavelli? (1985) (0)
- Liberalism and the Modern Polity: Essays in Contemporary Political Theory . Edited by McGrath Michael J. Gargas. (New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1978. Pp. ix + 305. $12.50, cloth; $5.95, paper.) (1980) (0)
- Book Reviews and Notes (1968) (0)
- What Tocqueville Would Say Today (2001) (0)
- Removal of Federal Offenders (0)
- The Constitution and Modern Social Science (1986) (0)
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