The new majority : toward a popular progressive politics /
In an era of widespread and unsettling change in families, businesses, and communities, most Americans yearn for a government that will take their side. The contributors to this bold and visionary book argue that America is ready for a progressive politics with substance and bite. They contend that...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[1997]
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| Summary: | In an era of widespread and unsettling change in families, businesses, and communities, most Americans yearn for a government that will take their side. The contributors to this bold and visionary book argue that America is ready for a progressive politics with substance and bite. They contend that by embarking on a popular progressive course, the Democratic Party can become the moral voice and practical partner of American families striving for a better life. This provocative book is a dialogue among Stanley B. Greenberg, Theda Skocpol, and other well-known thinkers. They reject conservative answers to America's most pressing problems - fraying social ties, hard-pressed families, sluggish economic growth, and widening gaps between the circumstances of the most privileged and those of everyone else. They urge a renewal of the nation's social contract, explain how to revitalize American democracy. |
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| Item Description: | Contains essays first presented at "the New Majority conference ... [at] Airlie House in Virginia on January 10-12,1997"--Page xi. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-314) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0300073410 9780300073416 0300078625 9780300078626 |