Conservative Parties and Right-Wing Politics in North America

Reaping the Benefits of an Ideological Victory?
2003
ISBN: 978-3-8100-3812-8
Verlag: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

Buch, Deutsch, Band 36, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 391 g

Reihe: Politikwissenschaftliche Paperbacks

The thirteen papers assembled in this volume offer a comparative perspective on the state of conservative and right-wing populist parties in the North American democraties. They deal with: Ideological and Value Change in the North American Mass Publics, Conservative Ideology and Party Programmes, The Changing Landskape of the Two Party Systems, The Public Policies of Conservative and Neo-Liberal Governments in North America

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schultze, Rainer-Olaf

Eberle, Dagmar

Sturm, Roland

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Konservativismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I.- Mission Accomplished? A Comparative Exploration of Conservatism in the United States and Canada.- The Changing Ideological Landscape in North America: Evidence from the World Values Surveys (1981–2000).- Political Ideology in the United States: Conservatism and Liberalism in the 1980s and 1990.- II.- The Canadian Citizenship Regime in a Conservative Era.- Looking Back: The Emergence of Right-Wing Populist Parties in the Canadian West and Their Performance in Government.- Populism, Conservatism and the New Right in English Canada: Blending Appeals, Constructing Constituencies and Reformulating Democracy.- Conservatism and Religion in the United States.- III.- Finding the “There” There: Membership and Organization of the Republican Party in the United States.- Party Membership on the Canadian Political Right: The Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Parties.- Women and Conservative Parties in Canada and the United States.- Conservative Think Tanks in the United States and Canada.- IV.- The Economic Dimension: Fiscal Conservatism, Deficit Reduction, and Welfare Retrenchment in the United States.- The Promises Kept by Our Rivals — New Budgetary Strategies of the Conservatives in Canada.- Contributors.

Über Autor(innen)

Rainer-Olaf Schultze, Dr. phil., Professor of Political Science and Managing Director of the Institute for Canadian Studies at the University of Augsburg; Roland Sturm, Dr. phil., Professor of Political Science and Head of the Institute of Political Science, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; Dagmar Eberle, Dipl.-Pol., Institute for Canadian Studies at the University of Augsburg