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Water quality --- Water quality monitoring stations --- Water --- Drinking water --- Analysis. --- Republican River (Neb. and Kan.)
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"Moving from the early 1960s to the presidential candidacy of Donald J. Trump, I, The People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States draws on theoretical work in rhetorical studies and political theory to examine a variety of texts ranging from speeches and campaign advertisements to news reports and political pamphlets, to outline the populist character of conservatism in the United States. Johnson's study makes several contributions to this robust and thriving area of research and scholarship. It argues that conservatism is not a coherent, studious ideology: rather, conservatism names a particular brand of victim-focused, white and male identity politics that exerts disproportionate influence on American politics and ever-tightening dominion over the Republican Party. I, The People emphasizes that discussions of the intellectual character of American conservatism should be mindful of its populist nature, which often limits the potential for conservative intellectuals to shape and control the very movement to which they belong. The study also challenges the long tradition of scholarship on conservatism that celebrates this tradition's seeming multiplicity, especially the tendency to suggest conservatives are uneasy with capitalism. While some self-identified conservatives oppose capitalist materialism, in practice conservatism's populist vocabulary has tilted the grammar of the United States in favor of a 'freedom' friendly to the market. Such 'freedom' is defined against some parts of the state's regulatory apparatus and/or a coalition of marginal persons thought to embody threats to national unity. In practice, because conservatism traditionally relies on negative definition to imagine its exclusion from the American political system, American conservatism ends up defining both 'the people' and the market as forces with a mutual skepticism of an overweening political order. Johnson also tackles the suggestion that conservatives learned to practice identity politics from social progressives. From the beginning, conservatism was an identity politics. U.S. conservatism relied on a rhetoric of victimhood, whether critiquing the liberal Cold War consensus or fears about Barack Obama's electoral success. Finally, the manuscript makes an important contribution to conversations about populism. Just because conservatism invokes 'the people' does not make it a collective, public-facing enterprise. 'The people' of conservatism is fundamentally hostile to the idea of the public, and any study of populism should account for the way that conservatism plays on a hostility to democracy with sources in the infrastructure of the United States itself"--
Identity politics --- Capitalism --- Rhetoric --- Populism --- Conservatism --- Political aspects --- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) --- United States.
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A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the antiabortion movement remade the Republican Party.
Pro-life movement --- Abortion --- Law and legislation --- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
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In 'Gendering the GOP', Catherine N. Wineinger argues that to truly understand the evolution of women's congressional representation, it is necessary to move beyond an analysis of legislative behaviour and toward an analysis of intraparty gender dynamics.
Women politicians --- Legislators --- Social conditions. --- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) --- United States --- Politics and government. --- Lawmakers --- Legislatures, Members of --- Members of legislatures --- Members of parliaments --- Parliaments, Members of --- Statesmen --- Politicians --- GOP (Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )) --- Grand Old Party --- National Union Party (U.S. : 1854- ) --- National Union Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) --- Republican Party --- Republicans (Political party : U.S. : 1854- ) --- Respublikanskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ SShA (U.S. : 1854- ) --- Union Party (U.S. : 1854- ) --- Union Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) --- Government --- History, Political --- Conservatism --- Women --- Political activity. --- Women in politics --- Respublikanskai͡a partii͡a SShA (U.S. : 1854- )
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"This book is an oral history of former Irish republican prisoners in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland between 1971, the year of the introduction of internment in Northern Ireland, and 2000, the year of the closure of the high-security prison HMP Maze. It focuses on the lives of Irish republican prisoners inside Irish and British internment camps and prisons during the height of the Northern Irish Troubles. The book discusses the relationship between three themes: political subjectivity, informal education, and collective resistance. Based on extensive life-story interviews with 34 ex-prisoners, the book examines the evolution of their subjective understandings of self and identity at the intersection of informal education in the prisons and the collective resistance resulting from this subjectification. Using the recent conflict on the island of Ireland as a case study, the book provides insight into political prisoners' role in ending armed conflicts, and into the personal and political development of radical activists during their imprisonment. Of the many groups supporting the Northern Irish peace process in the 1990s, one of the most remarkable are former inmates of internment camps and prisons. This group is noteworthy because it was formed of collectives of political prisoners who were almost entirely self-educated. The book's central focus is as follows: due to their informal self-education, the republican internees and prisoners could influence political developments outside the prisons from within their organizations. The author argues that the key to the process of (political) subjectivity, the becoming of a subject inside and outside the prisons, is political education. It was, namely, the self-organized lectures and debates that formed the subject politically and strengthened the inmates' identity as 'Prisoners of War'. This subjectivity enabled them to stage acts of resistance in defence of their developed identity. In other words, the self-awareness gained through self-education of young, politically inexperienced subjects empowered the individual prisoners to resist as a collective in the total institution that was the Irish and Northern Irish prison system during the Northern Irish conflict."--
Prisonniers politiques --- Political prisoners --- Histoire --- History --- Irish Republican Army. --- Irish Republican Army --- 1900-1999 --- Northern Ireland. --- Irlande du Nord --- Northern Ireland --- HM Prison Maze. --- Irish Peace Process. --- Long Kesh. --- Northern Ireland Troubles. --- Portlaoise prison. --- Sinn Féin. --- imprisonment. --- internment camps and prisons. --- political prisoners. --- prison education. --- Government, Resistance to. --- Civil disobedience.
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"Classical republicans from Machiavelli to Madison and contemporary republicans such as Philip Pettit and Quentin Skinner together form a coherent political tradition centred on three main principles: the non-domination principle, the empire of law principle, and the popular control principle. Republicans argue that people are not free when their choices are dominated by others, even when those others are benevolent, and even when that domination was consented to. Because domination presents an obstacle to human flourishing, public laws, policies, and institutions should be designed to reduce the extent to which people experience it. To this end, republicans advocate the rule of law, the public provision of an unconditional basic income, and popular control over public officials. Republican freedom is constituted as a public good by these laws, policies, and institutions, and because their health and maintenance depend on active citizen support, securing republican freedom is an ongoing collective project. To achieve stability, a well-ordered republic must enjoy robust civic engagement on the part of citizens, possibly secured in part through active civics education. Republicans should support cosmopolitan principles of global economic justice, the international rule of law, and cooperative multilateral security policies"--
Republicanism --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) --- Political parties --- United States --- Parties, Political --- Party systems, Political --- Political party systems --- Political science --- Divided government --- Intra-party disagreements (Political parties) --- Political conventions
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"The disturbing eyewitness account of how a new generation of Republicans-led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Madison Cawthorn-far from moving on from Trump, have taken the politics of hysteria to even greater extremes, bringing American democracy to the very edge of reason The violent insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021 was a terrible day for American democracy, but at least, many people dared hope that, after it was over, the fever would then be broken, Trump's absurd and relentless set of lies about the stealing of the 2020 election made unspeakable. That is not what happened. Instead, shockingly, "the big steal" has increasingly become dogma among an ever-higher percentage of American Republicans. What happened to the Republican Party, and America, during the Trump presidency is a story we more or less think we know. What has happened to the party since, it turns out, is even more disturbing. That is the story Robert Draper tells here. Through his extraordinarily intrepid reporting on the ground across the country, Draper chronicles the road from January 6th to the 2022 midterms among the Republican base and in the US Congress, as Marjorie Taylor Greene and her ilk have come to shape their party's terms of engagement to an extent that would have been unimaginable even ten years ago. He brings to life the efforts of a dwindling group of Republicans who are willing to push back against the falsehoods, in the face of a group of ascendent demagogues who are merrily weaponizing them. With a base whipped up into a perpetual frenzy of outrage by conspiracy theories-not just about "the big steal", but about COVID and vaccines, Antifa and BLM and George Soros and the Rothschilds and President Obama and on and on and on-the forces of reason within the GOP are on the defensive, to put it mildly. The leadership of the anti-Trump resistance among Republicans in Congress has cooperated extensively with the author; the book also benefits greatly from reporting conducted in Texas, Arizona, Georgia, Florida, and other bellwether states in the country of the mind one might call Conspiracyland. Robert Draper has been a wise, fearless, and fair-minded chronicler of the American political scene for over 25 years. He has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. He has never seen it this ugly. Ultimately, this book tells the story of a fearful test of our ability, as a country, to hold together a system of government grounded in truth and the rule of law. It's difficult to imagine a book that could underscore the stakes of the 2022 midterm elections more powerfully"--
Political sociology --- Internal politics --- Political parties --- anno 2020-2029 --- United States of America --- Conspiracy theories --- Capitol Riot, Washington, D.C., 2021. --- Political aspects --- Trump, Donald, --- Influence. --- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) --- United States --- Politics and government
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"The Politics of Imperial Memory in France examines the shifting role played by the memory of continental-and especially Napoleonic-imperial models in the contested construction of France's expansive "new" colonial empire during the second half of the nineteenth century"--
Imperialism --- Collective memory --- Public opinion --- History --- Political aspects --- France --- republicanism and colonialism in france, racism and republicanism in france, memory of napoleon, french colonial expansion in the third republic, bonapartism and republicanism in france, republican imperial policy in France.
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What is causing the American public to move more openly into alt-right terrain? What explains the uptick in anti-immigrant hysteria, isolationism, and an increasing willingness to support alternatives to democratic governance? The Everyday Crusade provides an answer. The book points to American Religious Exceptionalism (ARE), a widely held religious nationalist ideology steeped in myth about the nation's original purpose. The book opens with a comprehensive synthesis of research on nationalism and religion in American public opinion. Making use of survey data spanning three different presidential administrations, it then develops a new theory of why Americans form extremist attitudes, based on religious exceptionalism myths. The book closes with an examination of what's next for an American public that confronts new global issues, alongside existing challenges to perceived cultural authority. Timely and enlightening, The Everyday Crusade offers a critical touchstone for better understanding American national identity and the exclusionary ideologies that have plagued the nation since its inception.
Christianity and politics --- Conservatism --- Nationalism --- White nationalism --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- White people --- Nationalism, White --- Supremacy, White (White nationalism) --- White supremacy (White nationalism) --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- Sociology --- Conservativism --- Neo-conservatism --- New Right --- Right (Political science) --- Race identity --- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854-)
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Based on extensive archival research and containing rare and previously unpublished photos, this book provides the most detailed reconstruction ever of one of the most important events in Spanish theatrical history.
Theater --- History --- Political aspects --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, --- Stage history --- Spain --- Intellectual life --- Politics and government --- Spanish empire. --- Spanish-American writers. --- colonial reality. --- epic poetry. --- ethical solutions. --- new dramatic. --- political and ecclesiastical development. --- political communities. --- republican culture. --- scenic languages. --- veterans. --- violent conflicts. --- Medea (Seneca, Lucius Annaeus) --- 1900-1999
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