The American Ideology

Author : Christopher Ellis,James A. Stimson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107394438

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Ideology in America by Christopher Ellis,James A. Stimson Pdf

Public opinion in the United States contains a paradox. The American public is symbolically conservative: it cherishes the symbols of conservatism and is more likely to identify as conservative than as liberal. Yet at the same time, it is operationally liberal, wanting government to do and spend more to solve a variety of social problems. This book focuses on understanding this contradiction. It argues that both facets of public opinion are real and lasting, not artifacts of the survey context or isolated to particular points in time. By exploring the ideological attitudes of the American public as a whole, and the seemingly conflicted choices of individual citizens, it explains the foundations of this paradox. The keys to understanding this large-scale contradiction, and to thinking about its consequences, are found in Americans' attitudes with respect to religion and culture and in the frames in which elite actors describe policy issues.

Author : Morgan Marietta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136593659

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A Citizen's Guide to American Ideology by Morgan Marietta Pdf

Conservatives and Liberals often resort to cartoon images of the opposing ideology, relying on broadly defined caricatures to illustrate their opposition. To help us get past these stereotypes, this short, punchy book explains the two dominant political ideologies in America today, providing a thorough and fair analysis of each as well as insight into their respective branches. To help us understand the differences between the two contrasting ideologies, Morgan Marietta employs an innovative metaphor of a tree—growth from ideological roots to a core value, expanding into a problem that creates the competing branches of the ideology. This approach suggests a clear way to explain and compare the two ideologies in an effort to enhance democratic debate. A Citizen’s Guide to American Political Ideologies is a brief, non-technical and conversational overview of one of the most important means of understanding political rhetoric and policy debates in America today.

Author : Brian Vanyo
Publisher : Liberty Publishing Company
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0983193304

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The American Ideology by Brian Vanyo Pdf

James Madison once wrote, "A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." To those who seek to reclaim their command over American government today, "The American Ideology" serves as a powerful weapon to advance that cause. "The American Ideology" provides an objective investigation into the political philosophy that facilitated self-government in the United States. The book examines the origin of the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence. It demonstrates how the Constitution was designed to preserve those ideals. And it identifies the fundamental values that must accompany freedom in any republic in order to sustain it. Based on the writings and speeches of the Founding Fathers, the observations of Alexis de Tocqueville, and the critical works of John Locke, Charles de Montesquieu, and William Blackstone, "The American Ideology" serves as an authoritative study on the foundation of American liberty. "The American Ideology" also sheds light on the means by which the federal government has since subverted American liberty. It identifies the points in American history when the government has departed from its founding principles. It explains how the federal government's commerce and taxing powers under the Constitution have been stretched so far that any kind of individual activity can now be taxed and regulated. And thanks to the Supreme Court's recent ruling on the legality of "Obamacare," the federal government now has free reign to coerce individual behavior--it can tax and regulate inactivity. When this regulatory state is compared against the Founding Fathers' original design, it is clear that the federal government's authority today is overbearing, unnatural, and unconstitutional. As Brian Vanyo writes in "The American Ideology," there is a way for change to prevail--for the people to recover their sovereignty and restore their natural rights. Using the political philosophy that inspired the American Revolution, there is a way for the people to win their independence once again. But they must first arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Author : Alison L. LaCroix
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674062030

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The Ideological Origins of American Federalism by Alison L. LaCroix Pdf

Federalism is regarded as one of the signal American contributions to modern politics. Its origins are typically traced to the drafting of the Constitution, but the story began decades before the delegates met in Philadelphia. In this groundbreaking book, Alison LaCroix traces the history of American federal thought from its colonial beginnings in scattered provincial responses to British assertions of authority, to its emergence in the late eighteenth century as a normative theory of multilayered government. The core of this new federal ideology was a belief that multiple independent levels of government could legitimately exist within a single polity, and that such an arrangement was not a defect but a virtue. This belief became a foundational principle and aspiration of the American political enterprise. LaCroix thus challenges the traditional account of republican ideology as the single dominant framework for eighteenth-century American political thought. Understanding the emerging federal ideology returns constitutional thought to the central place that it occupied for the founders. Federalism was not a necessary adaptation to make an already designed system work; it was the system. Connecting the colonial, revolutionary, founding, and early national periods in one story reveals the fundamental reconfigurations of legal and political power that accompanied the formation of the United States. The emergence of American federalism should be understood as a critical ideological development of the period, and this book is essential reading for everyone interested in the American story.

Author : Christopher McKnight Nichols,David Milne
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231554275

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Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations by Christopher McKnight Nichols,David Milne Pdf

Winner, 2023 Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Edited Book in Historical International Relations, History Section, International Studies Association Ideology drives American foreign policy in ways seen and unseen. Racialized notions of subjecthood and civilization underlay the political revolution of eighteenth-century white colonizers; neoconservatism, neoliberalism, and unilateralism propelled the post–Cold War United States to unleash catastrophe in the Middle East. Ideologies order and explain the world, project the illusion of controllable outcomes, and often explain success and failure. How does the history of U.S. foreign relations appear differently when viewed through the lens of ideology? This book explores the ideological landscape of international relations from the colonial era to the present. Contributors examine ideologies developed to justify—or resist—white settler colonialism and free-trade imperialism, and they discuss the role of nationalism in immigration policy. The book reveals new insights on the role of ideas at the intersection of U.S. foreign and domestic policy and politics. It shows how the ideals coded as “civilization,” “freedom,” and “democracy” legitimized U.S. military interventions and enabled foreign leaders to turn American power to their benefit. The book traces the ideological struggle over competing visions of democracy and of American democracy’s place in the world and in history. It highlights sources beyond the realm of traditional diplomatic history, including nonstate actors and historically marginalized voices. Featuring the foremost specialists as well as rising stars, this book offers a foundational statement on the intellectual history of U.S. foreign policy.

Author : Donald R. Kinder,Nathan P. Kalmoe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226452593

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Neither Liberal nor Conservative by Donald R. Kinder,Nathan P. Kalmoe Pdf

Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today than at any time since the Civil War. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about everything, from terrorism and national security, to taxes and government spending, to immigration and gay marriage. Well, American elites disagree fiercely. But average Americans do not. This, at least, was the position staked out by Philip Converse in his famous essay on belief systems, which drew on surveys carried out during the Eisenhower Era to conclude that most Americans were innocent of ideology. In Neither Liberal nor Conservative, Donald Kinder and Nathan Kalmoe argue that ideological innocence applies nearly as well to the current state of American public opinion. Real liberals and real conservatives are found in impressive numbers only among those who are deeply engaged in political life. The ideological battles between American political elites show up as scattered skirmishes in the general public, if they show up at all. If ideology is out of reach for all but a few who are deeply and seriously engaged in political life, how do Americans decide whom to elect president; whether affirmative action is good or bad? Kinder and Kalmoe offer a persuasive group-centered answer. Political preferences arise less from ideological differences than from the attachments and antagonisms of group life.

Author : Morgan Marietta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136593666

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A Citizen’s Guide to American Ideology by Morgan Marietta Pdf

Conservatives and Liberals often resort to cartoon images of the opposing ideology, relying on broadly defined caricatures to illustrate their opposition. To help us get past these stereotypes, this short, punchy book explains the two dominant political ideologies in America today, providing a thorough and fair analysis of each as well as insight into their respective branches. To help us understand the differences between the two contrasting ideologies, Morgan Marietta employs an innovative metaphor of a tree—growth from ideological roots to a core value, expanding into a problem that creates the competing branches of the ideology. This approach suggests a clear way to explain and compare the two ideologies in an effort to enhance democratic debate. A Citizen’s Guide to American Political Ideologies is a brief, non-technical and conversational overview of one of the most important means of understanding political rhetoric and policy debates in America today.

Author : Alfred Owen Aldridge
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0874132606

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Thomas Paine's American Ideology by Alfred Owen Aldridge Pdf

Covering Paine's intellectual career between 1775 and 1787, Aldridge summarizes his work as an apprentice magazine editor, sketches the publishing history of Common Sense and its doctrines, and shows the relations of these ideas to those in the works of Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau. Seeking to create a just and ordered society through reason and choice instead of through passive submission to accident and force, he developed such themes as the inherent nature of man, the meaning of virtue, and the identity of American character. This book reveals that as part of the polemics over Common Sense, Paine wrote a pamphlet, Four Letters on Interesting Subjects, which discredits the notion of reconciliation with Britain, the provincial perspective of placing Pennsylvania above the Union, the charter of the British Constitution. Aldridge also investigates The Crisis and Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal. ISBN 0-87413-260-6 : $38.50.

Author : Nolan McCarty,Keith T. Poole,Howard Rosenthal
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262633611

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Polarized America by Nolan McCarty,Keith T. Poole,Howard Rosenthal Pdf

An analysis of how the increasing polarization of American politics has been accompanied and accelerated by greater income inequality, rising immigration, and other social and economic changes.

Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018333107

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Declarations of Independence by Howard Zinn Pdf

The acclaimed author of A People's History of the United States presents an honest and piercing look at American political ideology.

Author : Andrew Levine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135942847

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The American Ideology by Andrew Levine Pdf

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Yehoshua Arieli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1964-01-01
Category : Individualism
ISBN : 0674280083

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Individualism and Nationalism in American Ideology by Yehoshua Arieli Pdf

Author : Michael E. Latham
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807860793

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Modernization as Ideology by Michael E. Latham Pdf

Providing new insight on the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, Michael Latham reveals how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration. He shows how, in the midst of America's protracted struggle to contain communism in the developing world, the concept of global modernization moved beyond its beginnings in academia to become a motivating ideology behind policy decisions. After tracing the rise of modernization theory in American social science, Latham analyzes the way its core assumptions influenced the Kennedy administration's Alliance for Progress with Latin America, the creation of the Peace Corps, and the strategic hamlet program in Vietnam. But as he demonstrates, modernizers went beyond insisting on the relevance of America's experience to the dilemmas faced by impoverished countries. Seeking to accelerate the movement of foreign societies toward a liberal, democratic, and capitalist modernity, Kennedy and his advisers also reiterated a much deeper sense of their own nation's vital strengths and essential benevolence. At the height of the Cold War, Latham argues, modernization recast older ideologies of Manifest Destiny and imperialism.

Author : H. T. Wilson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Philosophy, American
ISBN : 071008501X

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The American Ideology by H. T. Wilson Pdf

Author : Mortimer N.S. Sellers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349133475

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American Republicanism by Mortimer N.S. Sellers Pdf

This book examines what 'republicanism' meant to the Americans who drafted and ratified the United States Constitution, guaranteeing a 'republican form of government' to every state in the Union. M.N.S.Sellers compares the writings and speeches of the founders with the authors they read and imitated to identify the central tenets of American republicanism, and to demonstrate that American republican though directly reflected classical models, rather than a mediating tradition of English or continental political theory.