The Emerging Democratic MajorityONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A WINNER OF THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY'S ANNUAL POLITICAL BOOK AWARD Political experts John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira convincingly use hard data -- demographic, geographic, economic, and political -- to forecast the dawn of a new progressive era. In the 1960s, Kevin Phillips, battling conventional wisdom, correctly foretold the dawn of a new conservative era. His book, The Emerging Republican Majority, became an indispensable guide for all those attempting to understand political change through the 1970s and 1980s. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, with the country in Republican hands, The Emerging Democratic Majority is the indispensable guide to this era. In five well-researched chapters and a new afterword covering the 2002 elections, Judis and Teixeira show how the most dynamic and fastest-growing areas of the country are cultivating a new wave of Democratic voters who embrace what the authors call "progressive centrism" and take umbrage at Republican demands to privatize social security, ban abortion, and cut back environmental regulations. As the GOP continues to be dominated by neoconservatives, the religious right, and corporate influence, this is an essential volume for all those discontented with their narrow agenda -- and a clarion call for a new political order. |
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... abortion, free trade, and deficit spending, for instance — but the leadership was distinguished by its laissez-faire economic views (government is the problem, not the solution), its opposition to the original civil rights acts and the ...
... abortion, free trade, and deficit spending, for instance — but the leadership was distinguished by its laissez-faire economic views (government is the problem, not the solution), its opposition to the original civil rights acts and the ...
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... abortion. They oppose government interference in people's private lives — from censorship to antisodomy laws. They reject government imposition of sectarian religious standards on both personal behavior and on scientific research. They ...
... abortion. They oppose government interference in people's private lives — from censorship to antisodomy laws. They reject government imposition of sectarian religious standards on both personal behavior and on scientific research. They ...
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... abortion. Adolescents experimented with sex and courtship. Homosexuals "came out" and openly congregated in bars and neighborhoods. Initially, these new values and pursuits inspired a sharp reaction from the religious right and ...
... abortion. Adolescents experimented with sex and courtship. Homosexuals "came out" and openly congregated in bars and neighborhoods. Initially, these new values and pursuits inspired a sharp reaction from the religious right and ...
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... abortion or reinstituting school prayer. There is, finally, a kind of metaworldview that has distinguished the two parties. From Andrew Jackson through Franklin Roosevelt and Bill Clinton, Democrats have defined themselves as the party ...
... abortion or reinstituting school prayer. There is, finally, a kind of metaworldview that has distinguished the two parties. From Andrew Jackson through Franklin Roosevelt and Bill Clinton, Democrats have defined themselves as the party ...
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... abortion rights, decriminalization of drugs, and sexual freedom. As early as 1 966, Reagan, running for governor of California, had successfully singled out the "filthy speech movement" (a successor to the "free speech movement") in ...
... abortion rights, decriminalization of drugs, and sexual freedom. As early as 1 966, Reagan, running for governor of California, had successfully singled out the "filthy speech movement" (a successor to the "free speech movement") in ...
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