ISBN:
9781589017924
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1589017927
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158901765X
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9781589017658
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xvii, 174 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Dennis, Shelley L. Testing the National Covenant: Fears and Appetites in American Politics by William F. May, Georgetown University Press, 2011 (ISBN 978-1-58901-765-8), xviii + 174 pp., hb 24.95 2013
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als May, William F Testing the national covenant
DDC:
306.20973
Keywords:
Consensus (Social sciences) United States
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Public interest United States
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Political culture Moral and ethical aspects
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United States
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Common good
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Public interest
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Political culture Moral and ethical aspects
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Consensus (Social sciences)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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PHILOSOPHY ; Ethics & Moral Philosophy
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Common good
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Consensus (Social sciences)
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Political culture ; Moral and ethical aspects
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Politics and government
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Public interest
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United States Politics and government
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2009-
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United States
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United States Politics and government 2009-2017
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United States
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Containing runaway fears in America foreign policy -- The overreach of free market ideology : business and government -- Free market ideology : bearing on other centers of power -- Curbing runaway appetites in domestic policy -- The national covenant : we the people -- The national covenant : forming a more perfect union -- Keeping covenant with immigrants and undocumented workers.
Abstract:
Since the end of World War II, runaway fears of Soviet imperialism, global terrorism, and anarchy have tended to drive American foreign policy toward an imperial agenda. At the same time, uncurbed appetites have wasted the environment and driven the country's market economy into the ditch. How can we best sustain our identity as a people and resist the distortions of our current anxieties and appetites?. Ethicist William F. May draws on America's religious and political history and examines two concepts at play in the founding of the country -- contractual and covenantal. He contends that the
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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