The Politics Of Common Sense
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The Politics Of Common Sense
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Author : Deva R. Woodly
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-01
The Politics Of Common Sense written by Deva R. Woodly 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 2015-06-01 with Political Science categories.
The way that movements communicate with the general public matters for their chances of lasting success. Deva Woodly argues that the potential for movement-led political change is significantly rooted in mainstream democratic discourse and specifically in the political acceptance of new issues by news media, the general public, and elected officials. This is true to some extent for any group wishing to alter status quo distributions of rights and/or resources, but is especially important for grassroots challengers who do not already have a place of legitimated influence in the polity. By examining the talk of two contemporary movements, the living wage and marriage equality, during the critical decade after their emergence between 1994-2004, Woodly shows that while the living wage movement experienced over 120 policy victories and the marriage equality movement suffered many policy defeats, the overall impact that marriage equality had on changing American politics was much greater than that of the living wage because of its deliberate effort to change mainstream political discourse, and thus, the public understanding of the politics surrounding the issue.
The Politics Of Common Sense
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Author : Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-02
The Politics Of Common Sense written by Aasim Sajjad Akhtar and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02 with Political Science categories.
"Looks at everyday political practice in contemporary Pakistan"--Provided by publisher.
Common Sense
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Author : Sophia Rosenfeld
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011
Common Sense written by Sophia Rosenfeld and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine’s vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense—the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debate—remains a powerful political ideal, utilized alike by George W. Bush’s aw-shucks articulations and Barack Obama’s down-to-earth reasonableness. But far from self-evident is where our faith in common sense comes from and how its populist logic has shaped modern democracy. Common Sense: A Political History is the first book to explore this essential political phenomenon. The story begins in the aftermath of England’s Glorious Revolution, when common sense first became a political ideal worth struggling over. Sophia Rosenfeld’s accessible and insightful account then wends its way across two continents and multiple centuries, revealing the remarkable individuals who appropriated the old, seemingly universal idea of common sense and the new strategic uses they made of it. Paine may have boasted that common sense is always on the side of the people and opposed to the rule of kings, but Rosenfeld demonstrates that common sense has been used to foster demagoguery and exclusivity as well as popular sovereignty. She provides a new account of the transatlantic Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions, and offers a fresh reading on what the eighteenth century bequeathed to the political ferment of our own time. Far from commonsensical, the history of common sense turns out to be rife with paradox and surprise.
The Politics Of Common Sense
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Author : Deva R. Woodly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Politics Of Common Sense written by Deva R. Woodly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Communication in politics categories.
The way that movements communicate with the general public matters for their chances of lasting success. This book argues that the potential for movement-led political change is significantly rooted in mainstream democratic discourse and specifically in the political acceptance of new issues by news media, the general public, and elected officials. This is true to some extent for any group wishing to alter status quo distributions of rights and/or resources, but is especially important for grass-roots challengers who do not already have a place of legitimated influence in the polity.
America And The Political Philosophy Of Common Sense
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Author : Scott Philip Segrest
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2009-12-01
America And The Political Philosophy Of Common Sense written by Scott Philip Segrest and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-01 with Political Science categories.
From Aristotle to Thomas Jefferson, seminal thinkers have declared “common sense” essential for moral discernment and civilized living. Yet the story of commonsense philosophy is not well known today. In America and the Political Philosophy of Common Sense, Scott Segrest traces the history and explores the personal and social meaning of common sense as understood especially in American thought and as reflected specifically in the writings of three paradigmatic thinkers: John Witherspoon, James McCosh, and William James. The first two represent Scottish Common Sense and the third, Pragmatism, the schools that together dominated American higher thought for nearly two centuries. Educated Americans of the founding period warmly received Scottish Common Sense, Segrest writes, because it reflected so well what they already thought, and he uncovers the basic elements of American common sense in examining the thought of Witherspoon, who introduced that philosophy to them. With McCosh, he shows the furthest development and limits of the philosophy, and with it of American common sense in its Scottish realist phase. With James, he shows other dimensions of common sense that Americans had long embraced but that had never been examined philosophically. Clearly, Segrest’s work is much more than an intellectual history. It is a study of the American mind and of common sense itself—its essential character and its human significance, both moral and political. It was common sense, he affirms, that underlay the Declaration of Independence and the founders’ ideas of right and obligation that are still with us today. Segrest suggests that understanding this foundation and James’s refreshing of it could be the key to maintaining America’s vital moral core against a growing alienation from common sense across the Western world. Stressing the urgency of understanding and preserving common sense, Segrest’s work sheds new light on an undervalued aspect of American thought and experience, helping us to perceive the ramifications of commonsense philosophy for dignified living.
The Common Sense Of Politics
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Author : Mortimer Jerome Adler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
The Common Sense Of Politics written by Mortimer Jerome Adler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Philosophy categories.
Commonsense And The Theory Of International Politics
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Author : John C. Garnett
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1985-06-30
Commonsense And The Theory Of International Politics written by John C. Garnett and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-06-30 with Political Science categories.
"International politics is not a cumulative subject in which the latest book makes all the others obsolete . . .The assumption underlying these pages is that our understanding of international politics is more likely to be improved by reflecting upon and reworking what we already know about the subject, than by topping up our knowledge with either more detailed research or more contemporary analysis. . . "Each of the chapters deals with a different aspect of international theory . . .A discerning reader may become aware of certain unifying threads running through and linking all of the chapters. They have all been written out of a conviction that explanation and not prescription is the only proper role of the political scientist; and they all reflect my skepticism about the 'scientific' nature of international politics." — John C. Garnett In a refreshing and clear analysis, Dr. Garnett looks at the nature of international theory and the problems associated with its development. Drawing from many disciplines, he examines fundamental questions in a new way, giving a measure of commonsense to a subject which has become complicated and esoteric. His use of analogies and quotations bring his subject alive in a study that will be of interest to those involved in both the social sciences and politics.
Common Sense Nation
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Author : Robert Curry
language : en
Publisher: Encounter Books
Release Date : 2015-11-24
Common Sense Nation written by Robert Curry and has been published by Encounter Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-24 with History categories.
“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” This sentence is perfectly familiar. We know it as a core principle of our founding. But few, if any of us consider why Jefferson wrote it in exactly this way. Why “unalienable rights” and not simply rights? Why “self-evident” truths and not simply truths? Why does the Declaration make these distinctions? Do they really matter? If these questions are challenging or Jefferson’s words seem esoteric, it is because we no longer conduct our politics in the language of the Founders and we are no longer able to think as they once thought. In Congress and the media, political arguments are advanced by a torrent of policy studies and “expert” opinions—not on the basis of self-evident truths, unalienable rights, and definitely not in the language of the Founders. Common Sense Nation is a potent re-introduction to the political ideas of the Founders—in their own words and on their terms. It is dedicated to the proposition that the only way to fully unlock the profound and distinctive power of American self-government is to understand it as its inventors did. Common Sense Nation reclaims the language of liberty from entities that prefer to interpret our freedoms for us. For in knowing the Founders as they knew themselves, readers will learn the surprising depths of their own political powers as American citizens.
Common Sense Of Politics
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Author : Adler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971-01
Common Sense Of Politics written by Adler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971-01 with categories.
Common Sense And Other Political Writings
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Author : Thomas Paine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Common Sense And Other Political Writings written by Thomas Paine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.