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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Reasoned elaborations: Consensus liberalism, legal process, and the discourse of democracy, 1950-1962 Abstract: It is often asserted that the legal scholars of the legal process school were part of the larger consensus school of the 1950s and early 1960s. However, no previous effort has attempted a comparative textual analysis of the published works of the legal and political scholars who participated in the consensus discourse with a view toward specifying the nature of the relationship. This dissertation does so. It analyzes the twin discourses of the consensus political intellectuals in sociology, history, and political science and that of the legal process scholars. It divides the discourses into constituent parts, referred to as the paradigmatic models or languages of "psychology," "American exceptionalism," "structural-functionalism," and "the free market." Each is shown to be derived from a particular analysis of history and politics that was shared by members of both the political and legal cohorts, who then used the terminology of these models or languages to convey their shared meanings. To further emphasize this point, the discourses are contrasted with related discourses taking place in the same period among legal and political intellectuals who did not subscribe to the existence of or the necessity for consensus. |
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