American Ideologies Today: Shaping The New Politics of The 1990's

This text focuses exclusively on American ideologies and their implications for U.S. politics and government. It examines long-established basic values, and develops the traditional left-right political spectrum with the special American versions of liberalism, conservatism, populism, libertarianism. Then it analyzes several new ideologies or organized movements, such as the Christian right, feminism, the Rainbow Coalition, the Greens, New Options, and environmentalism--in order to show how the combination of the eclipse of liberalism and the rise of new ideologies are reshaping the American political scene.Linda J. Medcalf is the author of 'American Ideologies Today: Shaping The New Politics of The 1990's', published 1992 under ISBN 9780070174115 and ISBN 0070174113.