Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics - Softcover

Ferguson, Thomas; Rogers, Joel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809001705 ISBN 13: 9780809001705

Publisher: Hill and Wang, 1987

Synopsis

A critical assessment of the 1984 election analyzes the decay of the Democratic party and the rise of a business-oriented political coalition in the GOP

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About the Author

THOMAS FERGUSON is Dean of Bexley Hall, within the Bexley Hall Seabury Western Theological Federation. A scholar and practitioner, he holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and has served congregations in Connecticut and Rhode Island. He has also served as The Episcopal Church s officer for ecumenical and interreligious relations. Tom and his wife, the Rev. Shannon Kelly, live in Columbus, Ohio, with their son. Follow his blog at crustyoldean.blogspot.com.

Joel Rogers, a MacArthur Foundation "genius" prize-winner and identified by Newsweek as one of the 100 living Americans most likely to shape U.S. politics and culture in the twenty-first century, is professor of law, political science, public affairs, and sociology at the University of Wisconsin Madison. The common thread in his academic work is democracy: how to define and measure it, what makes it work, how to make it work better. Rogers spends a lot of time outside the university advising people in politics, government, business, and social movements. He runs the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, which promotes high road (i.e., equitable, sustainable, democratic) economic development and governance, and has produced a stream of influential innovations in worker training; business and labor strategy; and local, state, and national policy.

From Library Journal

This is a sequel to Ferguson and Rogers's anthology of studies that examined the 1980 presidential election ( The Hidden Election, LJ 10/1/81). This new study focuses on both the party-electoral system of of the past and its likely future. The authors claim that over the past several years public policy and the party system have moved to the right while public opinon has remained essentially stable and left-of-centera pattern they foresee as continuing regardless of which party occupies the White House. What may be of greatest interest and controversy is the new "investment perspective" the authors employ to explain these changes. For informed laypeople and specialists. Edward C. Dreyer, Political Science Dept., Univ. of Tulsa, Okla.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Hill and Wang
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0809001705
• ISBN 13: 9780809001705
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288