Beyond red and blue : how twelve political philosophies shape American debates / / Peter S. Wenz
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| Autore: |
Wenz Peter S
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| Titolo: |
Beyond red and blue : how twelve political philosophies shape American debates / / Peter S. Wenz
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (386 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 320.60973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social problems - United States |
| Ideology - United States | |
| Political science - United States - Philosophy | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Social policy 1993- |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Beyond red and blue |
| ISBN: | 0-262-26127-8 |
| 1-282-24041-2 | |
| 9786612240416 | |
| 0-262-25495-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820855703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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