Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-03 - Publisher: Routledge
Why do conservatives tell stories? Because it helps them win elections and assail liberal policies like health care reform and economic stimulus. "Why" is important, but the "what" and the "how" behind the stories that conservatives tell are equally interesting, and in this new book, David Ricci reveals all. He
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Conservatives use great stories to prescribe government policy. Liberals engage the world via science and pragmatism, rendering liberalism less inspiring. This book examines this difference.
Authors: Stephen Skowronek, Stephen M. Engel, Bruce Ackerman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-25 - Publisher: Yale University Press
A landmark work on how the Progressive Era redefined the playing field for conservatives and liberals alike. During the 1912 presidential campaign, Progressivism emerged as an alternative to what was then considered an outmoded system of government. A century later, a new generation of conservatives criticizes Progressivism as having abandoned
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-31 - Publisher: Vernon Press
This book argues that the mainstream definitions of corruption, and the key expectations they embed concerning the relationship between corruption, democracy, and the process of democratization, require reexamination. Even critics who did not consider stable institutions and legal clarity of veteran democracies as a cure-all, assumed that the process of