Right moves
Subtitle: the conservative think tank in American political culture since 1945
By: Jason Stahl
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781469627861; 9781469627878
Subjects: Politics and government; Political culture; Conservatism; Research institutes; History
Description: " ... Traces the progression of think tanks from the rise of a broad conservative movement and the turn away from New Deal liberalism, their expanding role in advancing a neoconservative foreign policy through U.S. military power from the 1980s onward, and their current prominence as a counterweight to progressive political institutions and thought"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The think tank in an era of "liberal consensus"; title: Think tanks in a "marketplace of ideas"; title: Think tanks in the age of Reagan; title: Think tanks, new democrats, and committed conservatives; title: Think tanks, foreign policy, and the marketplace of ideas in the 2000s; title: Conclusion: policy as identity politics.