Unraveling the Right - The New Conservatism in American Thought and Politics

This book focuses on an alternative perspective on the relevance of today's conservatism in American thought and politics. It analyzes the most central and most significant public issues confronting our society at the end of the twentieth century.

List of contents

Foreword, Introduction, Part One Organizational Currents, Following the Threads, The Personal Is Political: The Role of Cultural Projects in the Mobilization of the Christian Right, Inventing an American Conservatism: The Neoconservative Episode, Business Conflict and Right-Wing Movements, Part Two Ideological and Policy Currents, Kitchen Table Backlash: The Antifeminist Women's Movement, Fulfilling Fears and Fantasies: The Role of Welfare in Right-Wing Social Thought and Strategy, Why Did Armey Apologize? Hegemony, Homophobia, and the Religious Right, The Color of America's Culture Wars, The Military-Industrial Complex and U.S. Foreign Policy: Institutionalizing the New Right Agenda in the Post-Cold War Period, The New Right's Economics: A Diagnosis and Counterattack, Mastering the New Political Arithmetic: Volatile Voters, Declining Living Standards, and Non-College-Educated Whites, Notes on the Editor and Contributors, Index

About the author

Amy E. Ansell is assistant professor and associate dean for International Programs at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

Summary

"Viewing the modern right as more than a passing fad for state-anxious individuals, Amy Ansell and the contributors in this volume treat the current conservative movement as an important effort to cont"

Product details

• Authors: Amy Ansell, Amy E. Ansell, Ansell Amy
• Assisted by: Amy Ansell (Editor), Amy E. Ansell (Editor), Editor (Editor), Editors (Editor)
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.1997
• EAN: 9780813331478
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-3147-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, United States of America, USA, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies and movements