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Uniting America : restoring the vital center to American democracy /

In Uniting America, some of America's most prominent social thinkers - among them Francis Fukuyama, Daniel Yankelovich, Amital Etzioni, Alan Wolfe, Uwe Reinhardt and Thomas E. Mann - reject the myth of polarisation. On topics ranging from the war on terrorism, health care, economic policy and S...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Garfinkle, Norton, 1931-, Yankelovich, Daniel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Overcoming polarization / Daniel Yankelovich
  • Nurturing economic growth and the values of American democracy / Norton Garfinkle
  • Social security and medicare reform for the twenty-first century / Will Marshall
  • The ethics of America's health care debate / Tsung-Mei Cheng and Uwe E. Reinhardt
  • Religion as unifier and divider / Alan Wolfe
  • Diversity, community, and government / Peter H. Schuck
  • Immigration and social disorder / Peter Skerry
  • Fighting the War on Terrorism / Francis Fukuyama
  • Constitutional responsibility in the war on terrorism / Michael Vatis
  • Character education and the challenge of raising a moral generation / Chester E. Finn, Jr
  • Citizenship, civic unity, and national service / William A. Galston
  • The fair society / Amitai Etzioni
  • Toward a sustainable environmentalism / Mark Sagoff
  • Is reform of America's electoral system possible? / Thomas E. Mann.