Must politics be war? : restoring our trust in the free society / Kevin Vallier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vallier, Kevin, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--United States.

Political culture.

Polarization (Social sciences)--Political aspects--United States.

Polarization (Social sciences).

Liberalism--United States.

Liberalism.

Civil society--United States.

Civil society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Restoring our trust in the free society

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Americans are far less likely to trust their institutions, and one another, than in decades past. This collapse in social and political trust arguably inspires our increasingly ferocious ideological conflicts and hardened partisanship. Many believe that our previously high levels of trust and bipartisanship were a pleasant anomaly and that today we live under the historic norm. For politics itself is nothing more than a struggle for power between groups with irreconcilable aims. Contemporary American politics is war because political life as such is war. This text argues that our shared liberal democratic institutions have the unique capacity to sustain social and political trust between diverse persons.

Contents:

Moral peace and social trust

Trust and the foundations of public justification

Public justification

Legal systems

Primary rights

Constitutional choice

Liberalism justified.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-063285-2

0-19-063286-0

0-19-063284-4