政治学哲学博士-宪政研究

任何有关真实人如何在政治上实际行为的科学（即他们如何以政治上相关的方式行事和讲话），都必须致力于整合“规范”和“经验”的政治知识方法。宪法学致力于成为一门学科。我们拒绝事实价值二分法，尽管它在现代哲学中长期衰落，但事实价值二分法在某些学术界仍然很流行。我们的领域将宪政民主构想成不仅在寻求聚集大众的偏好，而且还在朝着共同利益的合理观念发展和扩大大众的偏好。我们的领域假设了政治领导力的概念，从亚里斯多德（Aristotle）到《联邦主义者》（The Federalist）的作者都被政治思想家所共有：领导力教育
Any science of how real people actually behave politically – how they act and talk in politically relevant ways – must be committed to integrating ''normative'' and ''empirical'' approaches to political knowledge. Constitutional Studies strives to be such a discipline. We reject the fact-value dichotomy that remains popular in some academic circles despite its long decline in modern philosophy. Our field conceives constitutional democracy as seeking not merely to aggregate popular preferences but also to refine and enlarge popular preferences toward reasonable conceptions of the common good. Our field assumes a conception of political leadership shared by political thinkers from Aristotle to the authors of The Federalist and beyond: leadership that educates the public to its true interest, as opposed to its temporary inclinations. A substantial part of our program is thus devoted to the different conceptions of the public interest that have been debated from the American Founding to the present.