Fried / Harris At War with Government

How Conservatives Weaponized Distrust from Goldwater to Trump
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-55124-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Polling shows that since the 1950s Americans’ trust in government has fallen dramatically to historically low levels. The political scientists Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris reveal that this trend is no accident—it is fueled by conservative elites who benefit from it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fried, Amy

Harris, Douglas B.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Konservativismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
1. Weaponizing Distrust
2. Trust and Distrust in American Political Development
3. Here to Help? Movement Conservatism and the State in the Reagan Era
4. A Revolution Against Government? The Promotion of Distrust in the Clinton Era
5. “We’re All Mad Here”: The Tea Party and the Obama Era
6. “Punch Government in the Face”: Anger in the Trump Era
7. Making Peace with Government
Afterword
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Amy Fried is John Mitchell Nickerson Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine. She is the author of Muffled Echoes: Oliver North and the Politics of Public Opinion (Columbia, 1997) and Pathways to Polling: Crisis, Cooperation, and the Making of Public Opinion Professions (2012).

Douglas B. Harris is professor of political science at Loyola University Maryland. He is coauthor of Choosing the Leader: Leadership Elections in the U.S. House of Representatives (2019) and The Austin-Boston Connection: Fifty Years of House Democratic Leadership, 1937–1989 (2009) and coeditor of Doing Archival Research in Political Science (2012).