Search for the American Right Wing: An Analysis of the Social Science Record, 1955-1987 (Princeton Legacy Library) - Hardcover

Hixson, William B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691086230 ISBN 13: 9780691086231

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

This book is a creative synthesis of the published scholarly research on the contemporary American right wing from the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy to the election of Ronald Reagan as President. Unlike most other syntheses, it directly engages that research by critically analyzing the major explanations emerging from it. Emphasizing neither the lives and backgrounds of the scholars that he discusses nor paradigms within the social sciences as a whole, William Hixson focuses on the way the concepts of individual researchers have interacted with accumulating evidence on the American right, and how this evidence has led to new and more comprehensive theories.
Hixson first summarizes and evaluates the research on the major developments analyzed by scholars - the social sources of "McCarthyism," the "radical right" of the early 1960s, George Wallace's constituency in his Presidential campaigns, and the emerging "new right" of the late 1970s. He then compares the interpretations of the two most influential students of the right wing, Seymour Martin Lipset and Michael Paul Rogin. Finally, he offers his own explanations, suggesting that the right wing is both a mass and elite phenomenon, that its durability comes from its appeal to the upwardly mobile, especially in economically expanding regions, and that far from being either "traditionalist" or reactive, it represents a proactive defense of values associated with late nineteenth-century "modernization."

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0691086230
• ISBN 13: 9780691086231
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 386
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Princeton University Press; https://press.princeton.edu/books; ; 7th Floor, New South Building; PRINCETON; NJ; 8544; USA
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