CASE FOR POLARIZED POLITICS; Why America Needs Social Conservatism
Language: English
Published by Encounter Books, New York, 2012
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Fine in a Fine dust jacket.; 6.5 X 1 X 9.5 inches; 296 pages.
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- Title
- CASE FOR POLARIZED POLITICS; Why America Needs Social Conservatism
- Author
- Jeffrey Bell
- Publisher
- Encounter Books, New York
- Publication year
- 2012
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1594035784
- ISBN 13
- 9781594035784
- Edition
- First American Edition; First Printing.
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- Politics
Author and political activist Jeffrey Bell argues that social conservatism is uniquely American precisely because it&;s an outgrowth of American exceptionalism. It exists here because our founding principles, centering on the belief that we receive equal rights from God rather than from government, remain popular among American voters—if not at elite institutions.
Bell argues that upheavals of the 1960s set the stage for social conservatism&;s rise. The left&;s agenda, particularly the sexual revolution, triumphed among elite opinion in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and elsewhere. This happened after the left sidelined its century-long drive for socialism and returned to its roots in the 18th-century thought of Rousseau and the revolutionary Jacobins, radicals who sought to break free from civilizing institutions, particularly religion and the family.
American social conservatism derives from a branch of the Enlightenment that Bell analyzes as the “conservative enlightenment.&; The ability of this optimistic belief system, which dominated the American founding and transformed the English-speaking world, to spread its natural-law-centered vision of democracy will affect the shape of politics in the decades ahead.
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About the Author
In 2010, Bell became director of policy of the American Principles Project, a Washington-based advocacy group. His most recent book, Populism and Elitism: Politics in the Age of Equality, was named “the most important political book&; of 1992 by Fred Barnes in The New Republic. Bell and his wife, Rosalie O&;Connell, have four children and live in Annandale, Virginia.
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