Eight Ways to Run the Country : A New and Revealing Look at Left and Right

Mitchell, Brian Patrick

Praeger Pub Text（2006/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 161 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780275993580
• DDC分類 320.50973

Full Description

Political partisans want you to choose only between Left and Right, Red and Blue, Us and Them. But the reality is that Americans are deeply divided in more ways than one, and the savvy voter, no less than the savvy politician, must make more sense of things. Eight Ways to Run the Country explains what conventional political theory cannot, offering a profoundly illuminating look at our political past and our present differences.

Eight Ways doesn't do away with Left and Right, but it defines them in better terms and adds a whole new dimension to explain what Left and Right can't. It correctly pegs the ideological poles and thus brings easy-to-understand order to the dizzying diversity of political perspectives. It places neoconservatives into historical context, illuminating both what they share with other conservatives and how their differences have wrought a change in the character of the Right. It explains the recurring attempts to define an independent, non-ideological center. It provides the best definition of populism to be found. Finally, it relates the political heritage of the American Founders to the politics of today.

Contents

Preface
1. Schizocracy in America
2. Beyond Left and Right
3. For Common Things: The Communitarian
4. Change Is Good: The Progressive
5. Question Authority: The Radical
6. Framework for Utopia: The Individualist
7. Breaking the Clock: The Paleolibertarian
8. For the Permanent Things: The Paleoconservative
9. God and Country: The Theoconservative
10. Mugged by Reality: The Neoconservative
11. Postmodern Populism
Notes
Index