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The Right Talk : How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society / Mark A. Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2007Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (32 p.) : 5 line illus. 8 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691141008
  • 9781400830718
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • RE/320.520973 23
LOC classification:
  • JC573.2.U6 S6434 2007
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Role of Rhetoric in the Formation of Policy -- 3. Economic Insecurity and Its Rhetorical Consequences -- 4. The Building of Conservatives' Intellectual Capacity -- 5. The Move to Economic Arguments by Conservative Intellectuals -- 6. The Rhetorical Adaptations of the Republican Party -- 7. Democrats and the Long Shadow of Deficit Politics -- 8. The Republicans' Electoral Edge on the Economy -- 9 The Broad Reach and Future Prospects of Economic Rhetoric -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: 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 campaigns and the public agenda. He 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. He explains how Democrats similarly conceived economic justifications for their own policies, but unlike Republicans they changed positions on issues rather than simply offering new arguments and thus helped push the national discourse inexorably to the right. The Right Talk brings clarity, reason, and hard-nosed evidence to a contentious subject. Certain to enrich the debate about the conservative ascendancy in America, this book will provoke discussions and reactions for years to come.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Role of Rhetoric in the Formation of Policy -- 3. Economic Insecurity and Its Rhetorical Consequences -- 4. The Building of Conservatives' Intellectual Capacity -- 5. The Move to Economic Arguments by Conservative Intellectuals -- 6. The Rhetorical Adaptations of the Republican Party -- 7. Democrats and the Long Shadow of Deficit Politics -- 8. The Republicans' Electoral Edge on the Economy -- 9 The Broad Reach and Future Prospects of Economic Rhetoric -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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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 campaigns and the public agenda. He 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. He explains how Democrats similarly conceived economic justifications for their own policies, but unlike Republicans they changed positions on issues rather than simply offering new arguments and thus helped push the national discourse inexorably to the right. The Right Talk brings clarity, reason, and hard-nosed evidence to a contentious subject. Certain to enrich the debate about the conservative ascendancy in America, this book will provoke discussions and reactions for years to come.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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