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Envisioning America and the American Self - Republican and Democratic Party Platforms, 1840-2016 (Hardcover)
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Envisioning America and the American Self - Republican and Democratic Party Platforms, 1840-2016 (Hardcover)
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This book explores the Democratic and Republican Party platforms
from 1840 to 2016. As the only official, institutionally sanctioned
document espousing the parties' views on the state of the nation,
the platforms present to the party faithful a diagnosis of what
ails the country and the promise of possessing the necessary cure.
In doing so, they offer more than a listing of specific issues in
need of redress through legislative action, and moreover serve as a
form of national storytelling through which political parties forge
their vision of America and of what it means to be an American.
Using topic modeling as an entry point into the documents, the
author moves to consider more closely two related themes: those of
how the platforms narrate the "American" self and individual
freedom. With consideration of the extent to which the parties
envision the self as an isolated economic actor or as an individual
with a range of duties and obligations to a broader community, the
spheres of action that they consider focal points for individual
autonomy, and the extent to which they view liberty as freedom from
restraint or freedom to act, this book sheds light on the
historical trajectory of the growing fracture in American politics
as well as the points of convergence across the two parties.
Moreover, positing that behind their divisive rhetoric, both share
a fundamental vision of what it means to be a "person," the author
argues that perhaps their seemingly intractable differences are
more a matter of degree than kind.
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