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Subject(s)

• Conservatism—United States [Browse]
• Church and state—United States [Browse]
• United States—Politics and government—2001-2009 [Browse]

Series

• Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm studies in social anthropology new ser., 7. [More in this series]
• Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm studies in social anthropology, 0347-0830 ; n.s. 7 [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Conservatism in America. Between oxymoron and truism; The liberal consensus and "Liberal conservatism"; Conservatism as an ongoing pattern; Hierarchy and "Democratic feudalism" ; The new right : five trajectories; Burke in America; The "Southern strategy" and beyond; The Neocons; The new Christian right; Working-class conservatism ; Concluding remarks
• Doing Democracy. Among the experts; The ORP candidate training seminar; "Voter chimpology" ; Mapping democracy; Avoidance; Geography; Representation ; Paradoxes of democracy; Wollheim's paradox; Postponed compromises
• "Liberals hate it!". The liberal; The culture war thesis and its critics; Polarization as a project; Reproduction, formation ; Political becoming; Narrative work; Politics in a contrarian mode ; Concluding remarks
• Political attachments. War; Supporting the troops; Media slant and counter-slant; "War is nasty business-get over it"; To believe in a "Scary, scary cowboy" ; Market; Clinging to myth; The preferred path to socialism; Necessary illusions ; God; Frank's wager; Narrating transformation; The problem of certainty; Faith in a secular age; Trust heuristics; Concluding remarks : coexistence
• Conclusion : to believe (in something). Being opinionated ; The unconditionality of belief ; Politics, fidelity, truth ; Fidelity as an anthropological problem ; Genuine problems and conversational analytics
• References
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9789187235030 (pbk.)
• 918723503X (pbk.)

OCLC

822017572

RCP

H - S

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