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Selfish libertarians and socialist conservatives? : the foundations of the libertarian-conservative debate
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ISBN: 9781503600294 1503600297 9780804792912 0804792917 9781503600287 1503600289 Year: 2017 Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford Economics and Finance,

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In Selfish Libertarians and Socialist Conservatives?, Nathan W. Schlueter and Nikolai G. Wenzel present a lively debate over the essential questions that divide two competing political philosophies. Wenzel—a libertarian who believes the state should be restricted to protecting life, liberty, and property—and Schlueter—a conservative who thinks the state has a larger role to play in protecting public welfare, safety, and morals—explore the fundamental similarities and differences between their respective positions. Over a series of point-counterpoint chapters, they lay out the essential tenets of their own stances, critiquing the other. This engaging dialogue introduces readers to the foundations of each political philosophy. To vividly illustrate the diverging principles underlying conservatism and libertarianism, the authors explore three different hot-button case studies: marriage, immigration, and education. Compact, accessible, and complete with suggestions for further reading, Selfish Libertarians and Socialist Conservatives? is an ideal teaching tool that places these two political perspectives in fruitful dialogue with one another.


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Die Hüter der Begriffe : Politische Sprachen des Konservativen in Großbritannien und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1945-1980
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ISBN: 3110461749 311046361X 3110454289 Year: 2017 Publisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg,

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Was meint konservativ? Diese Frage trieb Intellektuelle, Politiker und Parteien nach 1945 in Großbritannien wie der Bundesrepublik Deutschland um. Während der Begriff in Großbritannien ein akzeptierter Bestandteil des politischen Vokabulars war, gehörte er in der Bundesrepublik zu den schwierigen Begriffen der jungen Demokratie, beladen mit antidemokratischem Ballast. Von den Debatten um das Konservative besonders betroffen waren jene Parteien, die sich (auch) als konservativ etikettierten: die Conservative Party und die CDU/CSU. Als in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren die Konservativen ihre sprachliche Deutungshoheit an die Linke verloren glaubten, wurden die politischen Sprachen des Konservativen neu formuliert. In Großbritannien konzentrierte sich die Debatte auf die Conservative Party und führte zu erbitterten Flügelkämpfen, aus denen die Thatcherites als Gewinner hervorgingen. In der Bundesrepublik dagegen kristallisierten sich in einem verzweigten intellektuellen Diskurs eine liberale und eine neurechte Variante des Begriffs heraus. Für die Unionsparteien wurde dies zu einer fulminanten Herausforderung. Zugleich wurde der Bedeutungskampf um das Konservative auf europäischer Ebene ausgetragen. Diese nationalen wie transnationalen Auseinandersetzungen um die Begriffe hatten weitreichende politische Folgen – bis heute. What does conservative mean? This question preoccupied intellectuals and politicians in post-1945 Great Britain and West Germany. In the 1960s and 70s, as conservatives sensed they were losing their linguistic authority to the Left, they reinvented the political language of conservatism. This book shows the far-reaching political consequences of this national and trans-national struggle over definitions.


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Nationalstaat als Telos? : Der konservative Diskurs in Preussen und Sardinien-Piemont 1840-1870
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ISBN: 311054248X 3110544466 9783110544466 9783110542486 3110542072 9783110542073 Year: 2017 Publisher: Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter Oldenbourg,

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Die europäischen Konservativen des 19. Jahrhunderts hätten sie sich ungern als Reaktionäre, Rückwärtsgewandte oder Unverbesserliche bezeichnet. Obwohl die offene Unterdrückung der politischen Gegner eine praktikable Option blieb, tendierten sogar die unerbittlichsten Verfechter des Status quo dazu, ihre politischen Ziele zu popularisieren. Auch reformbereite Konservative sahen sich vor einer delikaten Herausforderung: Wie ließen sich Modernisierungsmaßnahmen realisieren, ohne die eigene Machtbasis zu untergraben? Die Studie untersucht die umfassende Dynamisierung des konservativen Diskurses, die schließlich zur spektakulären und halbgewollten Durchsetzung der Nationalstaatsidee in Deutschland und Italien führte. In the Age of Revolution, European conservatives confronted an ongoing challenge: How could they fulfill their dreams for a nation state without destabilizing existing power relations? The study investigates the transformation of conservative political discourse during the 19th century, which culminated in the implementation of the nation-state ideal in Germany and Italy.


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Revisions and dissents : essays
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ISBN: 1501757490 1609092171 0875807623 9781609092177 9780875807621 Year: 2017 Publisher: Dekalb, [Illinois] : Northern Illinois University Press,

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Paul Gottfried's critical engagement with political correctness is well known. The essays in Revisions and Dissents focus on a range of topics in European intellectual and political history, social theory, and the history of modern political movements. With subjects as varied as Robert Nisbet, Whig history, the European Union election of 2014, and Donald Trump, the essays are tied together by their strenuous confrontation with historians and journalists whose claims about the past no longer receive critical scrutiny. According to Gottfried, successful writers on historical topics take advantage of political orthodoxy and/or widespread ignorance to present questionable platitudes as self-evident historical judgments. New research ceases to be of importance in determining accepted interpretations. What remains decisive, Gottfried maintains, is whether the favored view fits the political and emotional needs of what he calls "verbalizing elites." In this highly politicized age, Gottfried argues, it is necessary to re-examine these prevalent interpretations of the past. He does so in this engaging volume, which will appeal to general readers interested in political and intellectual history.  


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The Stormy Present : Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846–1865
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ISBN: 1469633906 1469633914 1469633892 1469659085 9798890853547 9781469633909 9781469633916 9781469633893 Year: 2017 Publisher: Chapel Hill : Baltimore, Md. : University of North Carolina Press, Project MUSE,

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In this engaging and nuanced political history of Northern communities in the Civil War era, Adam I. P. Smith offers a new interpretation of the familiar story of the path to war and ultimate victory. Smith looks beyond the political divisions between abolitionist Republicans and Copperhead Democrats to consider the everyday conservatism that characterized the majority of Northern voters. A sense of ongoing crisis in these Northern states created anxiety and instability, which manifested in a range of social and political tensions in individual communities. In the face of such realities, Smith argues that a conservative impulse was more than just a historical or nostalgic tendency; it was fundamental to charting a path to the future. At stake for Northerners was their conception of the Union as the vanguard in a global struggle between democracy and despotism, and their ability to navigate their freedoms through the stormy waters of modernity. As a result, the language of conservatism was peculiarly, and revealingly, prominent in Northern politics during these years. The story this book tells is of conservative people coming, in the end, to accept radical change.


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Postwar Conservatism, A Transnational Investigation : Britain, France, and the United States, 1930-1990
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ISBN: 3319402714 3319402706 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This volume offers a unique comparative perspective on post-war conservatism, as it traces the rise and mutations of conservative ideas in three countries – Britain, France and the United States - across a ‘short’ twentieth century (1929-1990) and examines the reconfiguration of conservatism as a transnational phenomenon. This framework allows for an important and distinctive point --the 1980s were less a conservative revolution than a moment when conservatism, understood in Burkean terms, was outflanked by its various satellites and political avatars, namely, populism, neoliberalism, reaction and cultural and gender traditionalism. No long running, unique ‘conservative mind’ comes out of this book’s transnational investigation. The 1980s did not witness the ascendancy of a movement with deep roots in the 18th century reaction to the French Revolution, but rather the decline of conservatism and the rise of movements and rhetoric that had remained marginal to traditional conservatism.


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The vision of the soul : truth, goodness, and beauty in the western tradition
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ISBN: 0813229294 9780813229294 9780813229287 0813229286 Year: 2017 Publisher: Washington, District of Columbia : Catholic University of America Press,


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Euroscepticism as a transnational and pan-European phenomenon : the emergence of a new sphere of opposition
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ISBN: 9781138598430 1138598437 9781138917651 1138917656 9781315688893 1315688891 9781317422495 131742249X 9781317422518 1317422511 9781317422501 1317422503 Year: 2017 Publisher: London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

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1. Introduction / John FitzGibbon, Benjamin Leruth and Nick Startin -- 2. Modelling transnational and pan-European Euroscepticism / Simon Usherwood -- 3. To cooperate or not to cooperate? : the European radical right and pan-European cooperation / Nick Startin and Nathalie Brack -- 4. Is "Eurorealism" the new "Euroscepticism"? : modern conservatism, the European conservatives and reformists and European integration / Benjamin Leruth -- 5. Contesting integration : the radical left and Euroscepticism / Michael Holmes -- 6. Transnational mobilization and critical Europeanism / Sevasti Chatzopoulou and Angela Bourne -- 7. "Stop TTIP" : towards a transnational Eurosceptic opposing the transatlantic trade and investment partnership? / Dan Keith -- 8. Transnational Euroscepticism as ideational solidarity? : the 'no' campaign in the Irish referendums on the Lisbon Treaty / John FitzGibbon -- 9. Eurosceptic candidate MEPs in the news : a transnational perspective / Katjana Gattermann and Sofia Vasilopoulou -- 10. Religion and the EU : a commitment under stress / Simona Guerra -- 11. Conclusion / John FitzGibbon and Benjamin Leruth.


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Dollars for Dixie
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ISBN: 131680559X 1316804860 1316626334 1316795578 1316806324 1316807053 1316809242 1107174023 1316808513 1316800482 9781316809242 9781316808511 9781316795576 9781107174023 9781316626337 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Organized in 1933, the Southern States Industrial Council's (SSIC) adherence to the South as a unique political and economic entity limited its members' ability to forge political coalitions against the New Deal. The SSIC's commitment to regional preferences, however, transformed and incorporated conservative thought in the post-World War II era, ultimately complementing the emerging conservative movement in the 1940s and 1950s. In response to New Dealers' attempts to remake the southern economy, the New South industrialists - heirs of C. Vann Woodward's 'new men' of the New South - effectively fused cultural traditionalism and free market economics into a brand of southern free enterprise that shaped the region's reputation and political culture. Dollars for Dixie demonstrates how the South emerged from this refashioning and became a key player in the modern conservative movement, with new ideas regarding free market capitalism, conservative fiscal policy, and limited bureaucracy.


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Rethinking right-wing women : Gender and the Conservative Party, 1880s to the present
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ISBN: 1526132389 1526125196 9781526125194 9781784994389 1784994383 152612520X Year: 2017 Publisher: Manchester, [Michigan] : Manchester University Press,

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Rethinking Right-Wing Women explores the institutional structures for and the representations, mobilisation, and the political careers of women in the British Conservative Party since the late 19th century. From the Primrose League (est. 1883) to Women2Win (est. 2005), the party has exploited women's political commitment and their social power from the grass-roots to the heights of the establishment. Yet, although it is the party that extended the equal franchise, had the first woman MP to sit Parliament, and produced the first two women Prime Ministers, the UK Conservative Party has developed political roles for women that jar with feminist and progressive agendas. Conservative women have tended to be more concerned about the fulfilment of women's duties than the realisation of women's rights. This book tackles the ambivalences between women's politicisation and women's emancipation in the history of Britain's most electorally successful and hegemonic political party.

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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics --- Politics and Government. --- Women --- Women conservatives. --- Conservatism. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE --- Conservatism --- Women conservatives --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Conservative women --- Conservatives --- Conservativism --- Neo-conservatism --- New Right --- Right (Political science) --- Political science --- Sociology --- Women in politics --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Political activity. --- Political Process --- General. --- Elections. --- History. --- Political activity --- Conservative Party (Great Britain) --- Conservative and Unionist Party (Great Britain) --- Conservative Party (Gt. Brit.) --- Tory Party (Great Britain) --- Scottish Unionist Party --- Liberal Unionist Party (Great Britain) --- Great Britain. --- Politics and Government --- General --- Elections --- History --- E-books --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- British conservatism. --- Christabel Pankhurst. --- Conservative Century. --- Conservative Party. --- Conservative women. --- Edwardian Britain. --- Lady Iveagh. --- National Union of Conservative Associations. --- Primrose League. --- Tory Party. --- Women's Social and Political Union. --- cross-class language. --- cultural dominance. --- electoral culture. --- female conservatism. --- female unionism. --- gender inclusive approach. --- political machinations. --- politics of gender. --- suffrage organization.

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