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Studies of Identity in the 2008 Presidential Campaign explores issues of identity politics and the presidential election. Investigating all aspects of race, gender or ageism, the contributors to this volume address the role and function of 'identity politics' in political campaigns, and highlight challenges of 'identity politics' in contemporary political campaigns.

Presidents --- Gender identity --- African Americans --- Evangelicalism --- Christianity and politics --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Election --- Political aspects --- Race identity --- Political aspects. --- United States --- 2008 --- Obama, Barack, 1961 --- -Clinton, Hillary Rodham --- Palin, Sarah --- Nationale veiligheid --- Verenigde Staten --- Black people --- Gender dysphoria

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This book explores the social and political implications of what the authors identify as the decline of the social contract in America and the rise of a citizenry that has become self-centered, entitled, and independent. For nearly two decades, America has been in a “cultural war” over moral values and social issues, becoming a divided nation geographically, politically, socially, and morally. We are witnessing the decline of American Democracy, the authors argue, resulting from the erosion of the idea of the social contract. Especially since the “baby boomers,” each successive generation has emphasized personal license to the exclusion of service, social integration, and the common good. With the social contact, the larger general will becomes the means of establishing reciprocal rights and duties, privileges, and responsibilities as a basis of the state. The balkanization of America has changed the role of government from one of oversight to one of dependency, where individual freedom and responsibility are sacrificed for group equality. This book examines the conditions of this social fragmentation, and offers ideas of an American Renaissance predicated on communicative idealism.

Democracy. --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Political theory. --- Political communication. --- United States-Politics and gover. --- Political Theory. --- Political Communication. --- US Politics. --- Political communication --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- United States—Politics and government. --- United States --- Politics and government. --- Political science. --- Communication in politics. --- America --- American Politics. --- Political Science.