摘要：What can contemporary political science, which is overwhelmingly secular in its assumptions and interests, learn from Catholicism? This is the question to which Toward the Common Good is addressed. This book, a collection of essays by Catholic scholars, offers a survey of contemporary political science as well as a critique of that discipline in light of Catholic principles, especially the Church’s social teaching. The volume is organized around the most important sub-disciplines in political science, and so it includes treatments of political theory (with separate chapters by Steven J. Brust and Robert P. Hunt), American politics (Ryan J. Barilleaux), public administration (John A. Corso), comparative politics (Anthony R. Brunello), and international relations (with separate chapters by Andrew Essig and volume editor Robert F. Gorman, who also contributes the work’s introduction).
