The myth of left and right : how the political spectrum misleads and harms America /
The left-right political spectrum is the dominant paradigm of contemporary American politics, but it promotes the confusion and hostility that characterize our current public discourse. This book explains how the political spectrum emerged and took hold in the interwar years, when it modeled only th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The left-right political spectrum is the dominant paradigm of contemporary American politics, but it promotes the confusion and hostility that characterize our current public discourse. This book explains how the political spectrum emerged and took hold in the interwar years, when it modeled only the size of government, and how new social and foreign policy issues have arisen to complicate the political landscape and render the unidimensional model obsolete. |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2023. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197680650 0197680658 |