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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2007.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.