Cargando…

The right talk : how conservatives transformed the Great Society into the economic society /

Political analyst Mark Smith offers the most original and compelling explanation yet of why America has swung to the right in recent decades. How did the GOP transform itself from a party outgunned and outmaneuvered into one that defines the nation's most important policy choices?Conventional w...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Mark A. (Mark Alan), 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The role of rhetoric in the formation of policy
  • 3. Economic insecurity and its rhetorical consequences
  • 4. The building of conservatives' intellectual capacity
  • 5. The move to economic arguments by conservative intellectuals
  • 6. The rhetorical adaptations of the Republican Party
  • 7. Democrats and the long shadow of deficit politics
  • 8. The Republicans' electoral edge on the economy
  • 9. The broad reach and future prospects of economic rhetoric
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.