Populists And Progressives: The New Forces In American Politics - Softcover

Steven Rosefielde; Daniel Quinn Mills

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9811218404 ISBN 13: 9789811218408

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2020

Synopsis

Populists and Progressives alerts readers to dramatic changes in the ideological and political structure of America's Democratic and Republican parties roiling Washington and shaping the 2020 presidential election. America now has four distinct contentious political orientations: progressive, liberal, conservative and populist. The least well understood are the progressives, whose programs are often confused with socialism, and populists stigmatized as reactionaries. Each has its own agenda and presses programs that are incompatible with one another, auguring protracted strife and paralysis. The book carefully elaborates the substance of each movement and analyses the social, political and economic forces driving them. It assesses their staying power and prospects in the 2020 presidential election. The analysis reveals that most contemporary American political commentary is intensely partisan and relies on obsolete notions of Democrat and Republican party doctrine and rivalry, obscuring the transformation of American society, politics and economy. Populists and Progressives assists readers to dispel the fog, allowing them to judge the present danger and help in the search for consensus solutions.

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About the Author

<p>Steven Rosefielde, Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his PhD from Harvard University and is a Member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RAEN). His books include: Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: The West's Paralysis, Crisis and Decline, Cambridge University Press, 2013; Inclusive Economic Theory (with Ralph W Pfouts), World Scientific, 2014; Global Economic Turmoil and the Public Good (with Quinn Mills), World Scientific, 2015; Transformation and Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe: Challenges and Prospects (with Bruno Dallago), Routledge, 2016; Kremlin Strikes Back: Russia and the West after Crimea's Annexation, Cambridge University Press, 2017; The Trump Phenomenon and Future of US Foreign Policy (with Quinn Mills), World Scientific, 2016; Trump's Populist America, World Scientific, 2017; China's Market Communism: Challenges, Dilemmas, Solutions (with Jonathan Leightner), Routledge, 2017; The Unwinding of the Globalist Dream: EU, Russia, China (with Masaaki Kuboniwa, Kumiko Haba and Satoshi Mizobata, eds.), World Scientific, 2017; Putin's Russia: Economic, Political and Military Foundations, World Scientific, 2020. <p>Daniel Quinn Mills provides thought leadership in several fields including leadership, strategy, economics and geopolitics. He has been a director of publicly-listed firms and is currently a director of several closely-held private corporations. He has published books about business activities, the media, American foreign policy, economic policy, and political processes. During the Vietnam War, Mills spent several years in Washington, DC helping to control inflation. For several years, he was in charge of all wages, prices and profits in the construction industry (then fourteen percent of GDP). Simultaneously he taught at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Thereafter he taught at the Harvard Business School. He has done consulting and speaking in the following countries: United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Russia, Israel, China, Japan, Malaysia, Brazil, Columbia, Mexico, Singapore, South Africa, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and Australia. Mills earned his MA and PhD from Harvard, both in economics. He received his undergraduate degree from Ohio Wesleyan. Throughout his career, Mills has been an influential author. His most recent books are Authoritarians Resurgent: Rethinking Global Security (with Steven S Rosefielde), forthcoming 2020; The Trump Phenomenon and the Future of US Foreign Policy (with Steven S Rosefielde), 2016; Global Economic Turmoil and the Public Good (with Steven S Rosefielde), 2015; Shadows of the Civil War, 2014; The Leader's Guide to Past and Future, 2013; Democracy and Its Elected Enemies (with Steven S Rosefielde), 2013; The Financial Crisis of 2008–10, 2010; and Rising Nations (with Steven S Rosefielde), 2009. Previously he published Masters of Illusion: Presidential Leadership, Strategic Independence and America's Public Culture (with Steven S Rosefielde), 2007.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811218404
• ISBN 13: 9789811218408
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192