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 49
Page 20
... turned its face against impeachment , the more frustrated traditionalist conservatives became with a nation whose moral compass they saw as defective . William Bennett , the conservative moralist , offered a book called The Death of ...
... turned its face against impeachment , the more frustrated traditionalist conservatives became with a nation whose moral compass they saw as defective . William Bennett , the conservative moralist , offered a book called The Death of ...
Page 21
E.J. Dionne. vicious campaign that turned the 2000 South Carolina Republican primary into what one journalist called a slaughterhouse . Bush was determined that conservatives would not do him in as they had his father in 1992 - even if ...
E.J. Dionne. vicious campaign that turned the 2000 South Carolina Republican primary into what one journalist called a slaughterhouse . Bush was determined that conservatives would not do him in as they had his father in 1992 - even if ...
Page 23
... turned their backs on their own principles ( in support of states ' rights and in opposition to the excessive use of the " equal protection " doctrine ) confirmed for Democrats that the decision in Bush v . Gore had been unprincipled ...
... turned their backs on their own principles ( in support of states ' rights and in opposition to the excessive use of the " equal protection " doctrine ) confirmed for Democrats that the decision in Bush v . Gore had been unprincipled ...
Page 24
... turned to Bush for leadership , and Democrats from top to bottom rallied to his side . In the first months after 9/11 , Bush did govern from the center , compromising with Democratic leaders on budget issues , airport secu- rity , and ...
... turned to Bush for leadership , and Democrats from top to bottom rallied to his side . In the first months after 9/11 , Bush did govern from the center , compromising with Democratic leaders on budget issues , airport secu- rity , and ...
Page 25
... turning to economics . The result was narrow - the country was still largely divided into roughly equal halves . But the Republican share of the vote was just enough to produce a decisive shift in the Senate and modest gains in the ...
... turning to economics . The result was narrow - the country was still largely divided into roughly equal halves . But the Republican share of the vote was just enough to produce a decisive shift in the Senate and modest gains in the ...
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