Why Americans Hate PoliticsSimon and Schuster, 2004 - 432 pages In this new edition of his national bestseller, E. J. Dionne brings up to date his influential proposals for a politics that can and must find a balance between rights and obligations, between responsibility and compassion. All over the United States, Americans are deserting the political process. Why? In this national bestseller, one of our shrewdest political observers traces thirty years of volatile political history and finds that on point after point, liberals and conservatives are framing issues as a series of "false choices, " making it impossible for politicians to solve problems, and alienating voters in the process. Now with a new afterword discussing the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings and the 1992 presidential election, Dionne explores what has gone wrong with the American system and offers a back-to-basics approach to politics designed to respond to the anger of America's restive majority. From the New, Updated Introduction: "At the heart of Why Americans Hate Politics is the view that ideas shape politics far more than most accounts of public life usually allow. I believe ideas matter not only to elites and intellectuals, but also to rank and file voters. Indeed, I often think that the rank and file see the importance of ideas more clearly than the elites, who often find themselves surprised by the rise of the movements that arise from the bottom up and shape our politics." |
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... Deal . " -The Wall Street Journal " A book destined to become a classic in American political history . " - Elaine Ciulla Kamarck , Newsday " Dionne is seductive , and his intelligent and well - written book should be consulted ...
... Deal . " -The Wall Street Journal " A book destined to become a classic in American political history . " - Elaine Ciulla Kamarck , Newsday " Dionne is seductive , and his intelligent and well - written book should be consulted ...
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... Deal Optimism TEN POLITICS WITHOUT GOVERNMENT : The Rebirth of Libertarianism ELEVEN BALANCING ACTS : Reagan , Bush , and the Conservative Impasse TWELVE ONE NATION , DIVISIBLE : 242 259 283 The 1988 Campaign and the Logic of False ...
... Deal Optimism TEN POLITICS WITHOUT GOVERNMENT : The Rebirth of Libertarianism ELEVEN BALANCING ACTS : Reagan , Bush , and the Conservative Impasse TWELVE ONE NATION , DIVISIBLE : 242 259 283 The 1988 Campaign and the Logic of False ...
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... deal with the underlying causes of violence . The decline of a " politics of remedy " created a vicious cycle . Campaigns became negative in large part because of a sharp decline in popular faith in government . To appeal to an 10 ...
... deal with the underlying causes of violence . The decline of a " politics of remedy " created a vicious cycle . Campaigns became negative in large part because of a sharp decline in popular faith in government . To appeal to an 10 ...
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... Deal coalition by using cultural and social issues - race , the family , “ permissiveness , " crime - to split New Deal constituencies . The cultural issues , especially race , allowed the conservatives who took control of the ...
... Deal coalition by using cultural and social issues - race , the family , “ permissiveness , " crime - to split New Deal constituencies . The cultural issues , especially race , allowed the conservatives who took control of the ...
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... Deal hold attitudes toward government and public life that are , on the whole , quite different from the responses of their fellow citizens whose views were forged in the Reagan era . But a nation and its public life lose their dynamism ...
... Deal hold attitudes toward government and public life that are , on the whole , quite different from the responses of their fellow citizens whose views were forged in the Reagan era . But a nation and its public life lose their dynamism ...
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IV | 55 |
VI | 77 |
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X | 145 |
XI | 147 |
XIII | 170 |
XVII | 259 |
XIX | 283 |
XXI | 300 |
XXIII | 327 |
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