Abstract
The Reagan presidency posed more than the usual number of explanatory challenges for political science. How could an ideologue win the White House in a political system as relentlessly centrist as ours? How was he able to give policy direction to a divided government? And how was he able to maintain his popularity through eight years that substantially recast the politics of the nation? This essay seeks to link certain aspects of the Reagan presidency to the literature of political science. The author looks at both Reagan the candidate and Reagan the President and concludes that, as a profession, political science is richer in data than theory and rather myopic in its incrementalist view of change.
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