Beyond red and blue : how twelve political philosophies shape American debates / / Peter S. Wenz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820855703321
• Autore: Wenz Peter S
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2009
• ISBN: 0-262-26127-8; 1-282-24041-2; 9786612240416; 0-262-25495-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (386 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.60973
• Soggetti: Social problems - United States; Ideology - United States; Political science - United States - Philosophy; United States Social policy 1993-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-352) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 No Strange Bedfellows -- 2 Pulling the Plug: Theocrats and Libertarians -- 3 Physician-Assisted Suicide: Libertarians and Communitarians -- 4 The War on Drugs: Utilitarianism and Social Conservatism -- 5 The War on Terrorism: Utilitarianism, Contractarianism, and Cosmopolitanism -- 6 Affirmative Action: Libertarianism, Utilitarianism, and Social Conservatism -- 7 Pornography, Child Pornography, and the Internet: Feminism, Social Conservatism, Libertarianism, and Utilitarianism -- 8 Abortion: Libertarianism, Feminism, Communitarianism, Theocracy, and Social Conservatism -- 9 Homosexuality, Same-Sex Marriage, and Polygamy: Social Conservatism, Theocracy, Natural Law, Libertarianism, Contractarianism, and Multiculturalism -- 10 Genetic Engineering and Designer Children: Libertarianism, Utilitarianism, Contractarianism, Environmentalism, Natural Law, and Social Conservatism -- 11 Wages and Taxes: Libertarianism, Free-Market Conservatism, and Contractarianism -- 12 Health Care in America: Free-Market Conservatism, Contractarianism, and Communitarianism -- 13 ; Immigration: Cosmopolitanism, Communitarianism, Multiculturalism, Free-Market Conservatism, Contractarianism, and Environmentalism -- 14 Globalization: Libertarianism, Free-Market Conservatism, Cosmopolitanism, Contractarianism, Social Conservatism, and Environmentalism -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Why Americans do not divide neatly into red and blue or right and left but form coalitions across party lines on hot-button issues ranging from immigration to same-sex marriage.