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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"American political culture"”.
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The Transformation of Ritual Performance Traditions in Early American Political Culture
… used, and provide historical background for the American political culture. Chapter Three introduces Turner's ""social drama"" as a way of connecting four points of major political change in American history: the Great Awakenings, the Revolution, the adoption of the Constitution, and the …
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"A kind providence" and "The right to self preservation": how Andrew Jackson, Emersonian whiggery, and frontier Calvinism shaped the course of American political culture
… attention. Jackson may have been a giant on the political landscape, but he was also a human being, an ordinary American who experienced the same difficulties and challenges as other Americans of the early nineteenth century. Another common experience for many Americans of Jackson’s day included …
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Ambrose Bierce: Between politics and philosophy
This study examines the political thought of Ambrose Bierce. Because of his aversion to Gilded Age politics, Bierce did not participate in the political process. As a result, his political thought must be considered from an ideological or philosophical perspective; Examination of his views suggests …
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The politics of injustice rhetoric and poverty in Reagan's America
… the Reagan administration and the conservative political agenda in a variety of ways. The question therefore arises: Why was there no widespread public resistance against Reagan’s policies which took away from the poor and gave to the rich? Three key themes of the American political culture, …
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Calls to be counted: Rhetorics of aggregation and numerical representation in 20th century American democracy
… played in mass campaigns in twentieth-century American political culture. Scholarship in political science, history and rhetorical studies tells us that the census and public opinion polling have long been used to tell Americans who they are or to justify political actions in democracy. …
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Rhetorical Constitution of Public Character and Conservative Ideology in the 1996 Republican Presidential Primary Campaign
"Contemporary American political culture is often characterized as uncivil, marked by communicative practices that are manipulative, distorting and combative. Such practices by politicians, who exist as role models for how citizens should conduct themselves in public life, may contribute to public …
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The Life of the Mind: An Intellectual Biography of Richard Hofstadter
… work continues to have an enduring influence in American political culture. Yet despite the continued and frequent use of his interpretations in public discourse, his reputation within historical scholarship remains, to a large degree, shaped by perceptions that were formed towards the end of his …
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Biopolitics and Belief: Governance in the Church of Christ, Scientist, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
This dissertation offers an analysis of two American religions–the Church of Christ, Scientist (CS), and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS)–and the ways that their particular/peculiar ideologies regarding the body govern the everyday realities of their respective memberships. …
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Offensive weapons: Herblock and the visual rhetoric of postwar liberalism
… of liberalism in the postwar era. In his role as political cartoonist for the Washington Post, which he held from 1946 until his death in 2001, he articulated the values of liberalism to a much broader national audience than was reached by the writings of other liberal writers and intellectuals. …
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The Politics of Male Friendship In Contemporary American Fiction
Exploring the traffic between U.S. literary culture and political philosophy, this thesis surveys works by a range of leading male contemporary American novelists alongside the recent resurgent interest in friendship as a political concept. Long exiled from serious political philosophy, friendship …