Terence Ball is Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University. He is the author of many books including most recently Reappraising Political Theory; coauthor of Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal; and coeditor of Thomas Jefferson: Political Writings. He is also the editor of the SUNY Press book Idioms of Inquiry: Critique and Renewal in Political Science.
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