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Skocpol Theda
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Titolo: |
The Tea Party and the remaking of Republican conservatism [[electronic resource] /] / Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson
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Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
Disciplina: | 320.520973 |
Soggetto topico: | Tea Party movement |
Conservatism - United States | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
WilliamsonVanessa
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: I want my country back! -- Behind the costumes and signs: who are the Tea Partiers? -- What they believe: the ideas and passions of Tea Partiers -- Mobilized grassroots and roving billionaires: the panoply of Tea Party organizations -- Getting the word out: the media as cheerleader and megaphone -- How the Tea Party boosts the GOP and prods it rightward -- The Tea Party and American democracy. |
Sommario/riassunto: | On February 19, 2009, CNBC commentator Rick Santelli delivered a dramatic rant against Obama administration programs to shore up the plunging housing market. Invoking the Founding Fathers and ridiculing ""losers"" who could not pay their mortgages, Santelli called for ""Tea Party"" protests. Over the next two years, conservative activists took to the streets and airways, built hundreds of local Tea Party groups, and weighed in with votes and money to help right-wing Republicans win electoral victories in 2010. In this penetrating new study, Harvard University's Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Willia |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Tea Party and the remaking of Republican conservatism ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-19-025260-X |
1-283-42746-X | |
9786613427465 | |
0-19-991283-1 | |
0-19-983264-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910457820503321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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