Unraveling the right : the new conservatism in American thought and politics

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Author:

Ansell, Amy Elizabeth, 1964-

ISBN:

9780813331461

Publication Information:

Boulder, Colo : Westview Press, 1998.

Physical Description:

viii, 264 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Introduction / Amy E. Ansell -- 1. Following the Threads / Chip Berlet -- 2. The Personal Is Political: The Role of Cultural Projects in the Mobilization of the Christian Right / Sara Diamond -- 3. Inventing an American Conservatism: The Neoconservative Episode / Gary Dorrien -- 4. Business Conflict and Right-Wing Movements / Matthew N. Lyons -- 5. Kitchen Table Backlash: The Antifeminist Women's Movement / Jean Hardisty -- 6. Fulfilling Fears and Fantasies: The Role of Welfare in Right-Wing Social Thought and Strategy / Ann Withorn -- 7. Why Did Armey Apologize? Hegemony, Homophobia, and the Religious Right / Anna Marie Smith -- 8. The Color of America's Culture Wars / Amy E. Ansell -- 9. The Military-Industrial Complex and U.S. Foreign Policy: Institutionalizing the New Right Agenda in the Post-Cold War Period / Ronald W. Cox -- 10. The New Right's Economics: A Diagnosis and Counterattack / Richard D. Wolff.

11. Mastering the New Political Arithmetic: Volatile Voters, Declining Living Standards, and Non-College-Educated Whites / Ruy A. Teixeira and Joel Rogers.

Subject Term:

Conservatism -- United States.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001.

Added Author:

Ansell, Amy Elizabeth, 1964-

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Viewing the modern right as more than a passing fad for state-anxious individuals, Amy Ansell and the contributors in this volume treat the current conservative movement as an important effort to contextualize and rearticulate the truths taken for granted in the American liberal tradition.Each author in this volume provides a contribution to an alternative perspective on the relevance of today's conservatism in American thought and politics. Based on a common recognition that the 1994 victory represented much more than the temporary infiltration of right-wing extremists or the public's spontaneous combustion of reactionary sentiments but rather twenty-plus years of diligent, conscientious organizing on the part of new actors on the right, the authors here agree that the American right wing continues to be a force to be reckoned with. Despite the apparent failure of the Republican Revolution and subsequent reelection of Clinton to office in 1996, the political and sociocultural forces that contributed to the 1994 victory are still very much at play, demanding that those interested in reversing the rightward drift of political opinion and government policy thoroughly understand the processes at work if another swing to the right is to be successfully combated.