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Why was the discourse of family values so pivotal to the conservative and free-market revolution of the 1980s and why has it continued to exert such a profound influence on American political life? Why have free-market neoliberals so often made common cause with social conservatives on the question of family, despite their differences on all other issues? In this book, Melinda Cooper challenges the idea that neoliberalism privileges atomized individualism over familial solidarities, and contractual freedom over inherited status. Delving into the history of the American poor laws, she shows how the liberal ethos of personal responsibility was always undergirded by a wider imperative of family responsibility and how this investment in kinship obligations is recurrently facilitated the working relationship between free-market liberals and social conservatives. Neoliberalism, she argues, must be understood as an effort to revive and extend the poor law tradition in the contemporary idio m of household debt. As neoliberal policymakers imposed cuts to health, education, and welfare budgets, they simultaneously identified the family as a wholesale alternative to the twentieth-century welfare state. And as the responsibility for deficit spending shifted from the state to the household, the private debt obligations of family were defined as foundational to socioeconomic order. Despite their differences, neoliberals and social conservatives were in agreement that the bonds of family needed to be encouraged -- and at the limit enforced-- as a necessary counterpart to market freedom. In a series of case studies ranging from Bill Clinton's welfare reform to the AIDS epidemic and from same-sex marriage to the student loan crisis, Cooper explores the key policy contributions made by neoliberal economists and legal theorists. Only by restoring the question of family to its central place in the neoliberal project, she argues, can we make sense of the defining political alliance of our times, that between free-market economics and social conservatism. --

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Conservatism --- Political culture --- Conservatism. --- Political culture. --- Russia. --- Russia (Federation). --- Soviet Union.

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" Since the start of the twenty-first century, the political mainstream has been shifting to the right. The liberal orthodoxy that took hold in the West as a reaction to the Second World War is breaking down. In Europe, populist political parties have pulled the mainstream in their direction; in America, a series of challenges to the Republican mainstream culminated in the 2016 election of Donald Trump. In Key Thinkers of the Radical Right, sixteen expert scholars explain sixteen thinkers, providing an introduction to their life and work, a guide to their thought, and an explanation of their work's reception. The chapters focus on thinkers who are widely read across the political right in both Europe and America, such as Julius Evola, Alain de Benoist, and Richard B. Spencer. Featuring classic, modern, and emerging thinkers, this selection provides a good representation of the intellectual right and avoids making political or value judgments. In an increasingly polarized political environment, Key Thinkers of the Radical Right offers a comprehensive and unbiased introduction to the thinkers who form the foundation of the radical right. "--

Conservatism --- Political science --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy --- History. --- Conservativism --- Neo-conservatism --- New Right --- Right (Political science) --- Sociology --- Conservatism - Philosophy --- Political science - Philosophy - History

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Prendendo come punto di osservazione la rappresentazione della politica statunitense durante la guerra fredda e negli anni immediatamente successivi alla sua fine, questo volume ricostruisce la storia del Movimento sociale italiano, indagando anche come il Msi abbia accolto la cultura americana veicolata attraverso il cinema, la musica e i mezzi di comunicazione di massa. Giovandosi di documentazione archivistica, sono stati ricostruiti anche gli sporadici e infruttuosi tentativi operati dai dirigenti del partito per istituire rapporti con la politica statunitense.Attraverso lo specchio americano, il libro restituisce continui­tà, discontinuità e differenziazioni della cultura politica del Msi dalle origini alla nascita di Alleanza Nazionale

Conservatism --- History --- Movimento sociale italiano. --- Italy --- United States --- Foreign relations --- Politics and government

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Paul Robinson's Russian Conservatism examines the history of Russian conservative thought from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. As he shows, conservatism has made an underappreciated contribution to Russian national identity, to the ideology of Russian statehood, and to Russia's social-economic development. Robinson charts the contributions made by philosophers, politicians, and others during the Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods. Looking at cultural, political, and social-economic conservatism in Russia, he discusses ideas and issues of more than historical interest. Indeed, what Russian Conservatism demonstrates is that such ideas are helpful in interpreting Russia's present as well as its past and will be influential in shaping Russia's future, for better or for worse, in the years to come.For the past two centuries Russian conservatives have sought to adapt to the pressures of modernization and westernization and, more recently, globalization, while preserving national identity and political and social stability. Through Robinson's research we can now understand how Russian conservatives have continually proposed forms of cultural, political, and economic development seen as building on existing traditions, identity, forms of government, and economic and social life, rather than being imposed on the basis of abs tract theory and foreign models.

Political culture --- Conservatism --- Russian history, contemporary Russian politics, political philosophy, intellectual history.