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." |
À l'intérieur du livre
Résultats 1-5 sur 81
Page 12
... their newfound supporters among the less well - to - do back toward the Democrats in presidential contests . The rise of the gay marriage issue in 2004 and President Bush's embrace of a constitutional amendment 12 / INTRODUCTION.
... their newfound supporters among the less well - to - do back toward the Democrats in presidential contests . The rise of the gay marriage issue in 2004 and President Bush's embrace of a constitutional amendment 12 / INTRODUCTION.
Page 13
... less than the conservatives , had a continuing interest in seeing the cultural civil war continue . Indeed , what is striking about political events of the 1960s is that they allowed both of the nation's dominant ideologies , and both ...
... less than the conservatives , had a continuing interest in seeing the cultural civil war continue . Indeed , what is striking about political events of the 1960s is that they allowed both of the nation's dominant ideologies , and both ...
Page 17
... less . Indeed , space was reopened in the death penalty debate for those who questioned its fairness and saw flaws in the system that administered it . Some religious conserva- tives - including foes of abortion seeking moral ...
... less . Indeed , space was reopened in the death penalty debate for those who questioned its fairness and saw flaws in the system that administered it . Some religious conserva- tives - including foes of abortion seeking moral ...
Page 18
... less positive at the end of the Clinton presidency than they were in the early 1960s , before the cultural revolution , Vietnam , and Watergate . Clinton himself chose to declare that " the era of big government is over . " But ...
... less positive at the end of the Clinton presidency than they were in the early 1960s , before the cultural revolution , Vietnam , and Watergate . Clinton himself chose to declare that " the era of big government is over . " But ...
Page 24
... less than to moderates and conservatives . And the very aspects of Bush's personality that drove his critics to distraction were reinterpreted , in the months after the terrorist attacks , as precisely the virtues required at the moment ...
... less than to moderates and conservatives . And the very aspects of Bush's personality that drove his critics to distraction were reinterpreted , in the months after the terrorist attacks , as precisely the virtues required at the moment ...
Table des matières
III | 31 |
IV | 55 |
VI | 77 |
VII | 98 |
VIII | 116 |
X | 145 |
XI | 147 |
XIII | 170 |
XVII | 259 |
XIX | 283 |
XXI | 300 |
XXIII | 327 |
XXIV | 329 |
XXVII | 356 |
XXVIII | 402 |
406 | |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Expressions et termes fréquents
abortion American politics anticommunism antiwar argued became Black Power Buckley Bush Bush's campaign candidate Christian civil rights coalition conservatism conservative constituency counterculture created critics cultural declared defended democracy Dukakis E. J. Dionne economic Eisenhower election electoral ethnic evangelical Falwell feminism feminist foreign policy fundamentalists George Gilder Goldwater ideas ideology increasingly intellectual interest Jimmy Carter John Kennedy Kirk Kristol Left Left's less liberalism's liberals libertarians McGovern ment middle class Modern Republicanism Moral Majority movement Moynihan National Review neoconservatives Nixon opposed party's percent polls popular populist President presidential problems programs quoted racial radical reform Religious Right Republican Party revolution Richard Richard Nixon role Ronald Reagan Russell Kirk seemed sense social issues society Soviet supply-side supply-side economics tion tives traditional traditionalists values vatives victory Vietnam Vietnam War Vital Center vote voters Wallace welfare William women wrote York young