Where Do We Go from Here? American Democracy and the Renewal of the Radical Imagination

Informationen zum Autor Mark Major is a is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University. Klappentext Dealing with pressing issues of the day including health care, race, immigration, liberalism, religion, foreign policy, unions, feminism, education, and the media, this edited volume looks at the prospects for a radical turn in US politics. In doing so, it hopes to inspire the radical imagination by showing where we can go from here. Zusammenfassung Dealing with pressing issues of the day including health care! race! immigration! liberalism! religion! foreign policy! unions! feminism! education! and the media! this edited volume looks at the prospects for a radical turn in US politics. In doing so! it hopes to inspire the radical imagination by showing where we can go from here. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Part I: The Global Imagination Chapter 2 1 Democracy, Foreign Policy, and War Chapter 3 2 Immigration Policy: A View from the Left Part 4 Part II: The Domestic Policy Imagination Chapter 5 3 From Private Profits to Public Goods? A Human Rights Assessment of Health Care Reform Chapter 6 4 Higher Education: Reclaiming the University as a Democratic Public Sphere Chapter 7 5 The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers Chapter 8 6 Charlie Brown, Machiavelli, and Labor's Passive Revolution Part 9 Part III: Beyond Policy Chapter 10 7 Radical Feminism in the Age of Choice Chapter 11 8 Religion, Spirituality, and the Progressive Imagination Chapter 12 9 Race and Democracy: The American Oxymoron Chapter 13 10 Sketching a More Progressive Public Philosophy: The Theory of Republican Modernity

Product details

• Assisted by: Mark Major (Editor), Major Mark (Editor)
• Authors: Mark Major
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.04.2010
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9780739137185
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-3718-5
• Series: Logos: Perspectives on Modern Society and Culture; Logos: Perspectives on Modern; Logos: Perspectives on Modern; Logos: Perspectives on Modern Society and Culture
• Subjects: USA, Political Science, United States of America, USA, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Contemporary Political Thought;Political Science, Contemporary Political Thought