The Politics of Ideas
Subtitle: Intellectual Challenges Facing the American Political Parties
Contributors: John Kenneth White (Editor); John Clifford Green (Editor)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: August 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780791450444
Subjects: Political parties; Political science & theory; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Government - U.S. Government; Political Process - Political Parties; Ideology; United States
Description: "This collection addresses the importance of ideas, and ideas of importance, to American politics at the beginning of a new century. On the one hand, the contributors find a distressing absence of ideas in American politics and a parallel rise of the power of political identities, interests, and other detrimental influences. On the other hand, many of the ideas that are present are superficial and unproductive.

The contributors debate the role of the major political parties in developing and promoting better ideas to reenergize American politics in the next century, and address the search for a workable public philosophy, party responsibility, party policy among Republicans and Democrats, and democratic citizenship."--BOOK JACKET.