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American Credo - The Place of Ideas in US Politics (Hardcover)
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American Credo - The Place of Ideas in US Politics (Hardcover)
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American society may be hostile to the thought of ideologies, but
it possesses a sophisticated but little understood ability to
engage in deep conflicts over political ideas, while at the same
time reducing adversarial positions to legitimate derivatives of
American history and development. The study asks how this occurs;
how the sources, traditions and usages of core ideas and their
derivative compounds animate political discourse and structure the
basis of political conflict; and how it is possible to sustain a
high incidence of competitive value-laden argument and principled
political conflict within a stable political order.
The fundamental aim of this study is to examine the traditions and
usages of American political ideas within the arena of practical
politics. By locating them in their respective contexts, it will be
possible to assess both their changing meanings and their shifting
relationships to one another.
In surveying America's core ideas both in isolation and in
combination, the book facilitates an informed awareness of their
political and cultural leverage as forms of persuasion and sources
of legitimacy. American Credo roots the examination of American
political ideas firmly in the milieu of social drives, political
movements and contemporary issues within which the ideas themselves
are embedded. This not only allows the study to investigate the
interior properties and traditional priorities of America's key
values but permits the theoretical implications and practical
consequences of these ideas to be traced and evaluated. By
marshalling a wide variety of evidence from different disciplines
and perspectives, and by employing innovative principles
oforganisation, the study offers clarity and depth in support of an
inventive explanatory scheme. It concludes with a review of the
current and likely future challenges to the protocols and
conventions surrounding the matrix of ideational coexistence.
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