Battling the Prince: A Political Memoir

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Sarah Surak, Alexander "Sandy" Pope, and the Institute for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement (PACE) at Salisbury University for the Faculty Fellowship that prompted me to write this essay, as well as Jill Locke, Mary Dougherty, and Mikki Snyder-Hall for their helpful comments. A preliminary version was presented at the 50th Anniversary Conference for the Caucus for a New Political Science and the essay benefited greatly from comments by discussant Mark Kaswan and other conference participants.

Notes

¹ James Madison, Federalist #51.

² Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings, ed. and trans., Victor Gourevitch (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 81.

³ Maurizio Viroli, The Liberty of Servants: Berlusconi’s Italy, trans. Antony Shugaar (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), p. xii.

⁴ Liza Featherstone, “You’re Fired: Political Discourse in the Age of Trump,” The Baffler, (February 6, 2017), available online at: https://thebaffler.com/blog/youre-fired-featherstone.

⁵ See, for example, Colleen Flaherty, “Steven Salaita Says He’s Leaving Academe,” Inside Higher Ed, (July 25, 2017), available online at: https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/07/25/steven-salaita-says-hes-leaving-academe and “Old Criticisms, New Threats,” Inside Higher Ed, (June 26, 2017), available online at: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/06/26/professors-are-often-political-lightning-rods-now-are-facing-new-threats-over-their.

⁶ Hetherington and Weiler, op. cit.