American credo a field guide to the place of ideas in US politics

American society may be hostile to the thought of ideologies, but it possesses a sophisticated but little understood ability to engage in deep conflicts over political ideas, while at the same time reducing adversarial positions to legitimate derivatives of American history and development. The stud...

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Glavni autor: Foley, Michael
Daljnji autori: Michael Foley
Jezik:Undetermined
English
Izdano: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2007
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Sažetak:American society may be hostile to the thought of ideologies, but it possesses a sophisticated but little understood ability to engage in deep conflicts over political ideas, while at the same time reducing adversarial positions to legitimate derivatives of American history and development. The study asks how this occurs; how the sources, traditions and usages of core ideas and their derivative compounds animate political discourse and structure the basis of political conflict; and how it is possible to sustain a high incidence of competitive value-laden argument and principled political conflict within a stable political order...
Opis:482 p.
24 cm
Bibliografija:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0199232679
9780199232673