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Beyond red and blue : how twelve political philosophies shape American debates / Peter S. Wenz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wenz, Peter S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social problems--United States.
- Social problems.
- Ideology--United States.
- Ideology.
- Political science--United States--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- United States--Social policy--1993-.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (386 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Why Americans do not divide neatly into red and blue or right and left but form coalitions across party lines on hot-button issues ranging from immigration to same-sex marriage.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 No Strange Bedfellows
- 2 Pulling the Plug: Theocrats and Libertarians
- 3 Physician-Assisted Suicide: Libertarians and Communitarians
- 4 The War on Drugs: Utilitarianism and Social Conservatism
- 5 The War on Terrorism: Utilitarianism, Contractarianism, and Cosmopolitanism
- 6 Affirmative Action: Libertarianism, Utilitarianism, and Social Conservatism
- 7 Pornography, Child Pornography, and the Internet: Feminism, Social Conservatism, Libertarianism, and Utilitarianism
- 8 Abortion: Libertarianism, Feminism, Communitarianism, Theocracy, and Social Conservatism
- 9 Homosexuality, Same-Sex Marriage, and Polygamy: Social Conservatism, Theocracy, Natural Law, Libertarianism, Contractarianism, and Multiculturalism
- 10 Genetic Engineering and Designer Children: Libertarianism, Utilitarianism, Contractarianism, Environmentalism, Natural Law, and Social Conservatism
- 11 Wages and Taxes: Libertarianism, Free-Market Conservatism, and Contractarianism
- 12 Health Care in America: Free-Market Conservatism, Contractarianism, and Communitarianism
- 13 Immigration: Cosmopolitanism, Communitarianism, Multiculturalism, Free-Market Conservatism, Contractarianism, and Environmentalism
- 14 Globalization: Libertarianism, Free-Market Conservatism, Cosmopolitanism, Contractarianism, Social Conservatism, and Environmentalism
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-352) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-26127-8
- 1-282-24041-2
- 9786612240416
- 0-262-25495-6
- OCLC:
- 646798398
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