The Politics of Unreason: Right Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1970

Politics & Social Sciences

Lipset, Seymour

Politics & Government

Harper&Row

The Politics of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1970

Politics and the Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Consensus and Conflict: Essays in Political Sociology

The first of two volumes of Seymour Martin Lipsit's major papers deals with social and political conflict and, to a lesser extent, the way in which value systems and political institutions maintain order and consensus. Together these papers expound Lipset's thesis that, although all complex societies are characterized by a high degree of internal tension and conflict, consensual institutions and values are necessary conditions for their persistence.

Consensus and Conflict

Social Sciences

Routledge

Emerging Coalitions in American Politics

“The election of 1980 did more than break the Democrats’ control of the White House and Congress. It also shattered some important assumptions about the character of our voting coalitions and the condition of our political parties. It opened some possibilities for the remainder of the century that had not been there before.” These reflections by David S. Broder in the introduction to Party Coalitions in the 1980s are echoed in the essays of the twenty-one scholars, party leaders, and candidates in the volume. This book presents a detailed and lively discussion of the past history, present significance, and future implications of coalitions in the American two-party political system. Patrick H. Caddell observed that “Reagan has skillfully huddled a variety of conservative program and issue initiatives under the umbrella of ‘economic revitalization.’” In that vein, Richard B. Wirthlin argued that “the 1980 presidential election should be viewed as a major … opportunity to redraft the policy agenda of this country.” Realizing that change is one of the few constants in politics, Lipset and his colleagues set forth strategies and guideposts for Republicans and Democrats who sought to build winning coalitions for the elections of the 1980s. Contents and Contributors:  Seymour Martin Lipset, "Party Coalitions and the 1980 Election"; S.l. Hayakawa, "The Two-Party System"; Richard Jensen, "Party Coalitions and the Search for Modern Values"; Paul Kleppner, "Coalitional and Party Transformation in the 1890s"; Jerome M. Clubb, "Party Coalitions in the Early Twentieth Century"; Everett Carll Ladd, "The Shifting Party Coalitions"; Nelson W. Polsby, "Coalition and Faction in American Politics"; William Schneider, "Democrats and Republicans, Liberals and Conservatives"; E.J. Dionne, Jr., "Catholics and Democrats"; Alan M. Fisher, "Jewish Political Shift?"; Martin P. Wattenburg and Arthur H. Miller, "Decay in Party Coalitions"; Richard B. Wirthlin, "The Republican, Strategy and Its Electoral Consequences"; Patrick Caddell, "The Democratic Strategy and Electoral Consequences"; John B. Anderson, "Developing a 'Grand Coalition"'; Walter Dean Burnham, "Toward Confrontation?"; Michael Harrington, "The Prospects for Reaganomics"; Howard Phillips, "More Independent Presidential Candidacies?"; Norman Podhoretz, "The New American Majority"; Richard M. Scammon, "The Republican Prospects"; Seymour Martin Lipset, "The American Party System."

Party Coalitions in the 1980s

History

Americas

"The election of 1980 did more than break the Democrats' control of the White House and Congress. It also shattered some important assumptions about the character of our voting coalitions and the condition of our political parties. It opened some possibilities for the remainder of the century that had not been there before." These reflections by David S. Broder in the introduction to Party Coalitions in the 1980s are echoed in the essays of the twenty-one scholars, party leaders, and candidates in the volume.This book presents a detailed and lively discussion of the past history, present significance, and future implications of coalitions in the American two-party political system. Patrick H. Caddell observed that "Reagan has skillfully huddled a variety of conservative program and issue initiatives under the umbrella of'economic revitalization.'" In that vein, Richard B. Wirthlin argued that "the 1980 presidential election should be viewed as a major ... opportunity to redraft the policy agenda of this country." Realizing that change is one of the few constants in politics, Lipset and his colleagues set forth strategies and guideposts for Republicans and Democrats who sought to build winning coalitions for the elections of the 1980s.

Political activity and student unrest have been recurring phenomena in American universities even after they reached their apogee in the 1960s. In Rebellion in the University, Seymour Martin Lipset reviews that turbulent period and places it in a larger historical perspective. He analyzes the source of student activism, the roles played by the faculty, the spectrum of campus political opinion, and the history of American campus protest. Two decades after this book was first written, the academic community is once more sharply divided over issues of political correctness. The term refers to the efforts by campus advocates of leftist politics to control the content of speech, courses, and appointments, and to impose their views with respect to multiculturalism, minority rights, and feminism. Lipset's new introduction is a major effort to account for this new wave of repressive moralism, to explain the issues involved, to locate sources of support and opposition, and to voice a judgment about the current situation in the American academic community.

Rebellion in the University (Foundations of Higher Education)

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

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