At War With Government
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At War With Government
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Author : Amy Fried
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2021-08-03
At War With Government written by Amy Fried and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-03 with Political Science categories.
Polling shows that since the 1950s Americans’ trust in government has fallen dramatically to historically low levels. In At War with Government, the political scientists Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris reveal that this trend is no accident. Although distrust of authority is deeply rooted in American culture, it is fueled by conservative elites who benefit from it. Since the postwar era conservative leaders have deliberately and strategically undermined faith in the political system for partisan aims. Fried and Harris detail how conservatives have sown distrust to build organizations, win elections, shift power toward institutions that they control, and secure policy victories. They trace this strategy from the Nixon and Reagan years through Gingrich’s Contract with America, the Tea Party, and Donald Trump’s rise and presidency. Conservatives have promoted a political identity opposed to domestic state action, used racial messages to undermine unity, and cultivated cynicism to build and bolster coalitions. Once in power, they have defunded public services unless they help their constituencies and rolled back regulations, perversely proving the failure of government. Fried and Harris draw on archival sources to document how conservative elites have strategized behind the scenes. With a powerful diagnosis of our polarized era, At War with Government also proposes how we might rebuild trust in government by countering the strategies conservatives have used to weaken it.
War And World Government
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Author : Frank Crane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
War And World Government written by Frank Crane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1915 with Disarmament categories.
The Counterrevolution
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Author : Bernard E. Harcourt
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-02-27
The Counterrevolution written by Bernard E. Harcourt and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-27 with Political Science categories.
A distinguished political theorist sounds the alarm about the counterinsurgency strategies used to govern Americans Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradigm in the United States -- one rooted in the modes of warfare originally developed to suppress anticolonial revolutions and, more recently, to prosecute the war on terror. The Counterrevolution is a penetrating and disturbing account of the rise of counterinsurgency, first as a military strategy but increasingly as a way of ruling ordinary Americans. Harcourt shows how counterinsurgency's principles -- bulk intelligence collection, ruthless targeting of minorities, pacifying propaganda -- have taken hold domestically despite the absence of any radical uprising. This counterrevolution against phantom enemies, he argues, is the tyranny of our age. Seeing it clearly is the first step to resisting it effectively.
American Amnesia
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Author : Jacob S. Hacker
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-03-29
American Amnesia written by Jacob S. Hacker and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-29 with Political Science categories.
A “provocative” (Kirkus Reviews), timely, and topical work that examines what’s good for American business and what’s good for Americans—and why those interests are misaligned. In American Amnesia, bestselling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson trace the economic and political history of the United States over the last century and show how a viable mixed economy has long been the dominant engine of America’s prosperity. We have largely forgotten this reliance, as many political circles and corporate actors have come to mistakenly see government as a hindrance rather than the propeller it once was. “American Amnesia” is more than a rhetorical phrase; elites have literally forgotten, or at least forgotten to talk about, the essential role of public authority in achieving big positive-sum bargains in advanced societies. The mixed economy was the most important social innovation of the twentieth century. It spread a previously unimaginable level of broad prosperity. It enabled steep increases in education, health, longevity, and economic security. And yet, extraordinarily, it is anathema to many current economic and political elites. Looking at this record of remarkable accomplishment, they recoil in horror. And as the advocates of anti-government free market fundamentalist have gained power, they are hell-bent on scrapping the instrument of nearly a century of unprecedented economic and social progress. In the American Amnesia, Hacker and Pierson explain the full “story of how government helped make America great, how the enthusiasm for bashing government is behind its current malaise, and how a return to effective government is the answer the nation is looking for” (The New York Times).
Warfare State
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Author : James T. Sparrow
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-05-01
Warfare State written by James T. Sparrow and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-01 with Political Science categories.
Although common wisdom and much scholarship assume that "big government" gained its foothold in the United States under the auspices of the New Deal during the Great Depression, in fact it was the Second World War that accomplished this feat. Indeed, as the federal government mobilized for war it grew tenfold, quickly dwarfing the New Deal's welfare programs. Warfare State shows how the federal government vastly expanded its influence over American society during World War II. Equally important, it looks at how and why Americans adapted to this expansion of authority. Through mass participation in military service, war work, rationing, price control, income taxation, and the war bond program, ordinary Americans learned to live with the warfare state. They accepted these new obligations because the government encouraged all citizens to think of themselves as personally connected to the battle front, linking their every action to the fate of the combat soldier. As they worked for the American Soldier, Americans habituated themselves to the authority of the government. Citizens made their own counter-claims on the state-particularly in the case of industrial workers, women, African Americans, and most of all, the soldiers. Their demands for fuller citizenship offer important insights into the relationship between citizen morale, the uses of patriotism, and the legitimacy of the state in wartime. World War II forged a new bond between citizens, nation, and government. Warfare State tells the story of this dramatic transformation in American life.
Government Control In War
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Author : Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey Baron Hankey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945
Government Control In War written by Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey Baron Hankey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with Great Britain categories.
The Worth Of War
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Author : Benjamin Ginsberg
language : en
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Release Date : 2014-09-02
The Worth Of War written by Benjamin Ginsberg and has been published by Prometheus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-02 with Social Science categories.
Although war is terrible and brutal, history shows that it has been a great driver of human progress. So argues political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg in this incisive, well-researched study of the benefits to civilization derived from armed conflict. Ginsberg makes a convincing case that war selects for and promotes certain features of societies that are generally held to represent progress. These include rationality, technological and economic development, and liberal forms of government. Contrary to common perceptions that war is the height of irrationality, Ginsberg persuasively demonstrates that in fact it is the ultimate test of rationality. He points out that those societies best able to assess threats from enemies rationally and objectively are usually the survivors of warfare. History also clearly reveals the technological benefits that result from war—ranging from the sundial to nuclear power. And in regard to economics, preparation for war often spurs on economic development; by the same token, nations with economic clout in peacetime usually have a huge advantage in times of war. Finally, war and the threat of war have encouraged governments to become more congenial to the needs and wants of their citizens because of the increasing reliance of governments on their citizens’ full cooperation in times of war. However deplorable the realities of war are, the many fascinating examples and astute analysis in this thought-provoking book will make readers reconsider the unmistakable connection between war and progress.
Brothers At War Corrupt Nation
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Author : David S. Cochran
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-24
Brothers At War Corrupt Nation written by David S. Cochran and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-24 with Business & Economics categories.
In the present world, we are paying witness to a government disparity full of falsehood and hatred. A political environment that has set the tone for public displays of dismay and anger, resulting in a nation's divide. A divide so powerful that some believe the only solution is complete independence from the government that united us, in exchange to operate under their own state law. Dive into the world that is Brothers at War, where secession is imminent, as a crooked and immoral federal government has pushed individual states to its breaking point. Set in the not so distant future of 2032, the natures of sanity will be tested as the country is set to face a revolution of mass proportions! Follow the Evans family as they navigate through the violence and adventure of a nation in transition. Pushing through economic hardship, along with navigating the conflicts of multiple nations, Brothers at War: Corrupt Nation is the first of a series sure to be an exciting and eye-opening read!
Of Force And Violence And Other Imponderables
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Author : Reginald Bretnor
language : en
Publisher: Millefleurs
Release Date : 1992
Of Force And Violence And Other Imponderables written by Reginald Bretnor and has been published by Millefleurs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Political ethics. categories.
The Blood Of Government
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Author : Paul A. Kramer
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2009-07-17
The Blood Of Government written by Paul A. Kramer and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-17 with categories.
In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic. Over the next five decades, U.S. imperialists justified their colonial empire by crafting novel racial ideologies adapted to new realities of collaboration and anticolonial resistance. In this path breaking, transnational study, Paul A. Kramer reveals how racial politics served U.S. empire, and how empire-building in turn transformed ideas of race and nation in both the United States and the Philippines. Kramer argues that Philippine-American colonial history was characterized by struggles over sovereignty and recognition. In the wake of a racial-exterminist war, U.S. colonialists, in dialogue with Filipino elites, divided the Philippine population into ''civilized'' Christians and ''savage'' animists and Muslims. The former were subjected to a calibrated colonialism that gradually extended them self-government as they demonstrated their ''capacities.'' The latter were governed first by Americans, then by Christian Filipinos who had proven themselves worthy of shouldering the ''white man's burden.'' Ultimately, however, this racial vision of imperial nation-building collided with U.S. nativist efforts to insulate the United States from its colonies, even at the cost of Philippine independence. Kramer provides an innovative account of the global transformations of race and the centrality of empire to twentieth-century U.S. and Philippine histories.