The politics of ideas : intellectual challenges facing the American political parties
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The politics of ideas : intellectual challenges facing the American political parties
State University of New York Press, c2001
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-166) and index
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Description
This collection addresses the importance of ideas, and ideas of importance, to American politics at the beginning of a new century. On the one hand, the contributors find a distressing absence of ideas in American politics and a parallel rise of the power of political identities, interests, and other detrimental influences. On the other hand, many of the ideas that are present are superficial and unproductive. The contributors debate the role of the major political parties in developing and promoting better ideas to reenergize American politics in the next century, and address the search for a workable public philosophy, party responsibility, party policy among Republicans and Democrats, and democratic citizenship.
Table of Contents
1. The Politics of Ideas: Introduction
John C. Green
2. The Search for a Public Philosophy
Wilson Carey McWilliams
3. Reviving the Political Parties: What Must Be Done?
John Kenneth White
4. On the Need for Parties Strong and Great: A Dissent
Everett Carll Ladd
5. Intellectual Challenges Facing the Republican Party
John J. Pitney Jr.
6. Democratic Party Ideology in the 1990s: New Democrats or Modern Republicans?
Philip Klinker
7. Political Parties and Democracy's Citizens
Stephen F. Schneck
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