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CRISIS OF CONSERVATISM?
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT AND AMERICAN POLITICS AFTER BUSH |
| By: |
Joel D. Aberbach (Editor), Gillian Peele (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£30.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199764026 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199764020 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
20 May, 2011 |
| Pages: |
416 |
| Description: |
The Crisis of Conservatism gathers a broad range of leading scholars of conservatism to assess the current state of the movement and where it is most likely headed in the near future. Featuring both empirical essays that analyze the reasons for the movement's current parlous state and more normative essays that offer new directions for the movement, the book is a comprehensive account of contemporary conservatism at its nadir. |
| Synopsis: |
Crisis of Conservatism? assesses the status of American conservatism-its politics, its allies in the Republican Party, and the struggle for the soul of the conservative movement that became especially acute with the controversial policies of the Bush administration and Republican losses in the 2006 and 2008 elections. What do different types of conservatives believe? How much do they have in common? How strong is the conservative movement in the United States, and what impact does it have on the Republican Party? Can conservatives and Republicans find in opposition a unity which had shattered as a result of being in power? To what degree do conservative ideas represent the mainstream of political beliefs in the United States? In short, is there the crisis of conservatism that some thought apparent as a result of the administration of George W. Bush? The book's contributors, a broad array of leading scholars of conservatism, identify a range of tensions in the conservative movement and the Republican Party, tensions over what conservatism is and should be, over what conservatives should do when in power, and over how conservatives should govern.Views differ a great deal, both between the public and conservative elite groups and among conservative elites themselves. This is balanced by the tendency of many in the general public to identify themselves as conservatives and by the vibrant intellectual life and vitality of conservative elites. In brief, Crisis of Conservatism? analyzes a conservative movement that seemed to be in crisis in the wake of the 2008 election and that remains beset by many problems and divisions but has fundamental strengths, both in the underlying proclivity of much of the American public to see itself as conservative and in the passion of conservative activists. |
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15 b/w illus. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
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Returnable |
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