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The Right Talk: How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society
Mark A. Smith
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Description for The Right Talk: How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society
Paperback. Analyzes a half century of speeches, campaign advertisements, party platforms, and intellectual writings, systematically showing how Republican politicians and conservative intellectuals increasingly gave economic justifications for policies they once defended through appeals to freedom. Num Pages: 32 pages, 5 line illus. 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPFM; JPL; JPVN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
Political analyst Mark Smith offers the most original and compelling explanation yet of why America has swung to the right in recent decades. How did the GOP transform itself from a party outgunned and outmaneuvered into one that defines the nation's most important policy choices? Conventional wisdom attributes the Republican resurgence to a political bait and switch--the notion that conservatives win elections on social issues like abortion and religious expression, but once in office implement far-reaching policies on the economic issues downplayed during campaigns. Smith illuminates instead the eye-opening reality that economic matters have become more central, not less, to ... Read more
Political analyst Mark Smith offers the most original and compelling explanation yet of why America has swung to the right in recent decades. How did the GOP transform itself from a party outgunned and outmaneuvered into one that defines the nation's most important policy choices? Conventional wisdom attributes the Republican resurgence to a political bait and switch--the notion that conservatives win elections on social issues like abortion and religious expression, but once in office implement far-reaching policies on the economic issues downplayed during campaigns. Smith illuminates instead the eye-opening reality that economic matters have become more central, not less, to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
32
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691141008
SKU
V9780691141008
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About Mark A. Smith
Mark A. Smith is Associate Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor of Communication at the University of Washington. He is the author of "American Business and Political Power: Public Opinion, Elections, and Democracy".
Reviews for The Right Talk: How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society
"The Right Talk argues that during the last 30 years...the language and logic of the market have invaded almost every corner of society
to the right's great advantage...Smith's further point
important by itself
is that while Republicans shifted their rhetoric and arguments toward the logic of the market, Democrats made a different shift, to their own political disadvantage... The Right Talk [is] worth ... Read more
to the right's great advantage...Smith's further point
important by itself
is that while Republicans shifted their rhetoric and arguments toward the logic of the market, Democrats made a different shift, to their own political disadvantage... The Right Talk [is] worth ... Read more