Yet despite Skocpol's enthusiasm, not all members of the government department seem satisfied with the scope of recent Faculty expansion.
Mansfield calls the department's Americanist offerings "far from sufficient." He cites a nagging lack of courses in "major tracks" of American government, and a lack of senior Faculty in areas such as American political parties, the presidency, and the Supreme Court.
Constitutional Crisis
For thirty years, since the departure of Professor Martin M. Shapiro, the government department has lacked a senior professor in public law-often called constitutional law.
Last year, the department made an offer to R. Shep Melnick `73, a professor at Boston College and former Harvard assistant professor, to take a tenured post at Harvard. But in a twist of Harvard's unique tenure policy-in which the University president makes all final decisions-President Neil L. Rudenstine rejected the offer to Melnick.
The failure to hire Melnick-who Mansfield says was "very foolishly denied" tenure-has left Harvard with only junior Faculty to study public law.
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