#  Harvey C. Mansfield 

 



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[Curriculum Vitae](/file_url/112)  
  
Harvey C. Mansfield, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government, studies and teaches political philosophy.

He has written on Edmund Burke and the nature of political parties, on Machiavelli and the invention of indirect government, in defense of a defensible liberalism and in favor of a Constitutional American political science. He has also written on the discovery and development of the theory of executive power, and has translated three books of Machiavelli’s and (with the aid of his wife) Tocqueville's *Democracy in America*. His book on manliness has just been published.

He was Chairman of the Government Department from 1973-1977, has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships, and has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center. He won the Joseph R. Levenson award for his teaching at Harvard, received the Sidney Hook Memorial award from the National Association of Scholars, and in 2004 accepted a National Humanities Medal from the President.

He has hardly left Harvard since his first arrival in 1949, and has been on the faculty since 1962.



 

##  Recent Publications 

 



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[Bibliography](/publications/bibliography). 2025.



 

 

[Bibliography](/publications/bibliography). 2025.



 

 

 

 

 



### 2012

Mansfield H. [The Majesty of the Law](/publications/majesty-law). 2012.



 

 

Mansfield H. [The Majesty of the Law](/publications/majesty-law). 2012.



 

 

 

 

Mansfield H. [Democracy Without Politics?](/publications/democracy-without-politics) Defining Ideas. 2012.



 

 

Mansfield H. [Democracy Without Politics?](/publications/democracy-without-politics) Defining Ideas. 2012.



 

 

 

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Mansfield H. [A Truly American Scholar](/publications/truly-american-scholar). Wall Street Journal. 2012.



 

 

Mansfield H. [A Truly American Scholar](/publications/truly-american-scholar). Wall Street Journal. 2012.



 

 

 

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Mansfield H. [Political Scientist, Par Excellence](/publications/political-scientist-par-excellence). The Weekly Standard. 2012.



 

 

Mansfield H. [Political Scientist, Par Excellence](/publications/political-scientist-par-excellence). The Weekly Standard. 2012.



 

 

 

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Mansfield H. [Turning Point: Is Lucretius the gateway to the modern world?](/publications/turning-point-lucretius-gateway-modern-world) The Weekly Standard. 2012.



 

 

Mansfield H. [Turning Point: Is Lucretius the gateway to the modern world?](/publications/turning-point-lucretius-gateway-modern-world) The Weekly Standard. 2012.



 

 

 

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