Horwitz America's Right

Anti-Establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-7049-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, E-Book

Conservatism has been the most important political doctrine in theUnited States for nearly four decades. It has dominated theintellectual debate and largely set the policy agenda, even duringyears of Democratic electoral control.
But 21st century conservatism has moved far beyond even the ReaganRevolution of small government, lower taxes and a respect fortradition. The alliance of libertarians, neoconservatives, and theChristian right has launched anxious and angry attacks on thepurported homosexual agenda, the "hoax" of climatechange, the rule by experts and elites, and the banishment ofreligion from the public realm. In the foreign policy arena it hastried to remake the world through the cleansing fire of violence.Contemporary American conservatism practices a politics that isdisciplined, uncompromising, utopian, and enraged, seeking to"take back our country."
This is "anti-establishment conservatism," whose origincan be traced back to the right wing that battled both the reigningpost-World War II liberal consensus and the moderate, establishmentRepublican Party. This book examines the nature ofanti-establishment conservatism, traces its development from the1950s to the Tea Party, and explains its political ascendance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horwitz, Robert B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Anti-statist Statism: A Brief History of a Peculiarly American Conservatism
Chapter 3 Religion and Politics: The Rise of the New Christian Right
Chapter 4 Two Generations of Neoconservatism: From the Law of Unintended Consequences to the Cleansing Fire of Violence
Chapter 5 Richard Hofstadter's "Paranoid Style" Revisited: The Tea Party, Past as Prologue
Chapter 6 Dogmatism, Utopianism, and Politics

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Horwitz is professor in the department of communication at the University of California San Diego.