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The rhetoric of reaction : perversity, futility, jeopardy /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
©1991.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Two hundred years of reactionary rhetoric
- Three reactions and three reactionary theses
- A note on the term "reaction"
- The perversity thesis
- The French revolution and proclamation of the perverse effect
- Universal suffrage and its alleged perverse effects
- The poor laws and the Welfare state
- Reflections on the perversity thesis
- The futility thesis
- Questioning the extent of change wrought by the French revolution: Tocqueville
- Questioning the extent of change likely to follow from universal suffrage: Mosca and Pareto
- Questioning the extent to which the Welfare State "Delivers the goods" to the poor
- Reflections on the futulity thesis
- The jeopardy thesis
- Democracy as a threat to liberty
- The Welfare state as a threat to liberty and democracy
- Reflections on the jeopardy thesis
- The three theses compared and combined
- A synoptic table
- The comparative influence of the theses
- Some simple interactions
- A more complex interaction
- From reactionary to progressive rhetoric
- The synergy illusion and the imminent-danger thesis
- "Having history on one's side"
- Counterparts of the perversity thesis
- Beyond intransigence
- A turnabout in argument?
- How Not to argue in a democracy.