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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815812803321

Autore

Stahl Jason T.

Titolo

Right moves : the conservative think tank in American political culture since 1945 / / Jason Stahl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

979-88-908459-0-0

1-4696-2788-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Disciplina

320.520973

Soggetti

Conservatism - United States - History - 20th century

Conservatism - United States - History - 21st century

Research institutes - United States - History

Political culture - United States

United States Politics and government 1945-1989

United States Politics and government 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The think tank in an era of "liberal consensus" -- Think tanks in a "marketplace of ideas" -- Think tanks in the age of Reagan -- Think tanks, new democrats, and committed conservatives -- Think tanks, foreign policy, and the marketplace of ideas in the 2000s -- Conclusion: policy as identity politics.

Sommario/riassunto

"... traces the progression of think tanks from the rise of a broad conservative movement and the turn away from New Deal liberalism, their expanding role in advancing a neoconservative foreign policy through U.S. military power from the 1980s onward, and their current prominence as a counterweight to progressive political institutions and thought"--