Leviathan on the Right : how big-government conservatism brought down the Republican revolution
Despite an ostensibly conservative Republican president and Republican control of Congress, government is bigger and more intrusive than ever. That is not by accident; it is the conscious aim of a new brand of conservatism that seeks, not to reduce the size of government, but to use big government for conservative ends. This book shows how the Bush administration, Congress, and large parts of the Republican Party and the conservative movement have abandoned traditional conservative ideals and embraced the idea of big government.--Publisher description
1 online resource (ix, 321 pages) : illustrations
9781433701436, 9781933995281, 9786611905446, 9781281905444, 143370143X, 1933995289, 6611905448, 1281905445
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I: From oxymoron to governing philosophy
Big government: it isn't just for liberals anymore
The roots of big-government conservatism
Proving Lord Acton correct
II: Big-government conservatism in action
Learning to love the welfare state
National health care lite
Blinking at the entitlements crisis
Spending like drunken democrats
A national school board
Power to the president
National busybodies
III: Defining the future
The small-government alternative
The coming debate
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English