American political cultures [[electronic resource] /] / Richard J. Ellis
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| Autore: |
Ellis Richard (Richard J.)
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| Titolo: |
American political cultures [[electronic resource] /] / Richard J. Ellis
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, c1993 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (331 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Political culture - United States - History |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Politics and government |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-239) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; 1 Individualism and Community in American Life; 2 Radical Lockeanism; 3 Rival Visions of Equality: Process Versus Results; 4 Competing Conceptions of Democracy; 5 An Anti-Authority Consensus?; 6 Hierarchy in America; 7 Fatalism in America: The Case of Slavery; 8 A Life of Hermitude: Thoreau at Walden Pond; 9 Culture, Context, and Consensus; Notes; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Challenging views that American politics are characterized by a consensus on liberal capitalist values, this study covers 300 years of history to trace rival political cultures: egalitarian community, competitive individualism, hierarchical collectivism, atomized fatalism and autonomous hermitude. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | American political cultures |
| ISBN: | 0-19-773281-X |
| 1-280-53997-6 | |
| 0-19-536003-6 | |
| 1-4294-0117-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813650103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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