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American Political Cultures.

Challenging views that American politics are characterized by a consensus on liberal capitalist values, this study covers 300 years of history to trace rival political cultures: egalitarian community, competitive individualism, hierarchical collectivism, atomized fatalism and autonomous hermitude.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ellis, Richard J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents; 1 Individualism and Community in American Life; 2 Radical Lockeanism; 3 Rival Visions of Equality: Process Versus Results; 4 Competing Conceptions of Democracy; 5 An Anti-Authority Consensus?; 6 Hierarchy in America; 7 Fatalism in America: The Case of Slavery; 8 A Life of Hermitude: Thoreau at Walden Pond; 9 Culture, Context, and Consensus; Notes; Index.