Consensus and Ideology in American Politics
Author | : Herbert McClosky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1965* |
Genre | : Consensus (Social sciences) |
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Author | : Herbert McClosky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1965* |
Genre | : Consensus (Social sciences) |
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Author | : Robert Mason |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-10-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813065275 |
When first published in 1976, Godfrey Hodgson’s America in Our Time won immediate recognition as a major interpretive study of the postwar era. In The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered, leading scholars—including Hodgson himself—confront his long-standing theory that a “liberal consensus” shaped the United States after World War II. These essays offer new insights into the era and diverging opinions on one of the most influential interpretations of mid-twentieth-century U.S. history.
Author | : James P. Young |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : Dan D. Nimmo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Politics, Practical |
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Author | : Christopher Ellis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2012-04-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1107394430 |
Public opinion in the United States contains a paradox. The American public is symbolically conservative: it cherishes the symbols of conservatism and is more likely to identify as conservative than as liberal. Yet at the same time, it is operationally liberal, wanting government to do and spend more to solve a variety of social problems. This book focuses on understanding this contradiction. It argues that both facets of public opinion are real and lasting, not artifacts of the survey context or isolated to particular points in time. By exploring the ideological attitudes of the American public as a whole, and the seemingly conflicted choices of individual citizens, it explains the foundations of this paradox. The keys to understanding this large-scale contradiction, and to thinking about its consequences, are found in Americans' attitudes with respect to religion and culture and in the frames in which elite actors describe policy issues.
Author | : Murray Clark Havens |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1965-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0292768834 |
Threats to American unity are not unique to modern times. In the 1960s, the assassination of President Kennedy, the tension of racial strife, the political extremes of the Radical Right with its John Birchers and the Radical Left with its threat of Communism all raised critically urgent questions relative to our national unity, to our political stability, and to our vaunted respect for the rule of law. The Challenges to Democracy is an assessment of the foundations of political unity in the United States. The American consensus, as Murray Clark Havens defines it, emphasizes a set of values and procedures that most Americans, since the adoption of the Constitution, have accepted in principle: religious tolerance, individual freedom in intellectual and cultural matters, the importance of education and intellectual effort, settlement of internal conflict through peaceful and political processes, the supremacy of law, a high and generally rising standard of living, and, since the Civil War, racial compatibility. Never in our history have the ideals of this consensus been fully achieved, but as long as the majority of our citizens accept the validity of those ideals and the democratic procedures for realizing them, the basic American political unity is not threatened. However, when citizens who cannot accept the elements of the American consensus become influential enough to block the democratic process, then that consensus is threatened. Havens shows how such threats have come to us all through our history—the Civil War, racial and religious bigotry, the Ku Klux Klan, Huey Long, Father Coughlin and other extremists of the desperate thirties, McCarthyism. He discusses contemporary dangers to American unity such as those connected with the acceptance of the African American, religious friction in politics and government, the Radical Right and the Radical Left, and our foreign policy as an expression of the American consensus. The broad conclusions of this study are that our national unity is continuously in jeopardy, with frequent recurrences of serious questions as to the permanence of some of the patterns we have always associated with American government, but that our democracy is possessed of considerable potential for survival because of our deep national commitment to democracy and because of our even deeper nationalism.
Author | : Steven E. Schier |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2016-02-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1442254858 |
From campus protests to the Congress floor, the central feature of contemporary American politics is ideological polarization. In this concise, readable, but comprehensive text, Steven E. Schier and Todd E. Eberly introduce students to this contentious subject through an in-depth look at the ideological foundations of the contemporary American political machine of parties, politicians, the media, and the public. Beginning with a redefinition of contemporary liberalism and conservatism, the authors develop a comprehensive examination of ideology in all branches of American national and state governments. Investigations into ideologies reveal a seeming paradox of a representative political system defined by ever growing divisions and a public that continues to describe itself as politically moderate. The work’s breadth makes it a good candidate for a course introducing American politics, while its institutional focus makes it suitable for adoption in more advanced courses on Congress, the Presidency, the courts or political parties.
Author | : H. Mark Roelofs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : Raymond E. Wolfinger |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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