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That Broader Definition of Liberty
The Theory and Practice of the New Deal|
59,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Lexington Books |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 04.10.2012 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780739174555 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 344 |
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<span><span>That Broader Definition of Liberty</span><span> synthesizes a political theory of the New Deal from the writings of Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, and Thurman Arnold. The resultant theory highlights the need for the public accountability of private economic power, arguing that when the private economic realm is unable to adequately guarantee the rights of citizens, the state must intervene to protect those rights. The New Deal created a new American social contract that accorded our right to the pursuit of happiness a status equal to liberty, and grounded both in an expansive idea of security as the necessary precondition for the exercise of either. This was connected to a theory of the common good that privileged the consumer as the central category while simultaneously working to limit the worst excesses of consumption-oriented individualism. This theory of ends was supplemented by a theory of practice that focused on ways to institutionalize progressive politics in a conservative institutional context. Brian Stipelman, drawing upon a mixture of history, American political development, and political theory, offers a comprehensive theory of the New Deal, covering both the ends it hoped to achieve and the means it used to achieve them.</span></span>
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<span><span>This book offers a comprehensive theory of the New Deal, covering the ends it hoped to achieve and the means it used to achieve them. Looking at a mixture of history, American political development, and political theory, it aims to fill a critical gap in scholarship and provide a theoretical framework for contemporary progressive political actors.</span></span>
<span><span><span>Part I: Introduction</span></span><br><span><span>Chapter 1: The Political Theory of the New Deal3</span></span><br><span><span>Chapter 2: The Evolution of Reform: Populist and Progressive Forebears</span></span><br><span><span>Part II: Ends</span></span><br><span><span>Chapter 3: “Necessary First Lessons”: The Preconditions of the Welfare State</span></span><br><span><span>Chapter 4: “That Broader Definition of Liberty:” The Social Contract of the New Deal</span></span><br><span><span>Part III: Means</span></span><br><span><span>Chapter 5: “All Armed Prophets Have Conquered”: The New Deal’s Theory of Agency</span></span><br><span><span>Chapter 6: The Third New Deal: The Institutional Context of Reform</span></span><br><span><span>Part IV: Conclusion</span></span><br><span><span>Chapter 7: “A Living and Growing Thing:” Appropriating New Deal Liberalism</span></span></span>
<span><span>Stipelman offers a comprehensive theory of the New Deal, covering both the ends it hoped to achieve and the means it used to achieve them. It draws upon a mixture of history, American political development, and political theory, and hopes to both fill a critical gap in scholarship and provide a theoretical framework for contemporary progressive political actors.</span></span>
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<span><span><span>Brian Stipelman</span><span> teaches American politics and political theory at Dowling College.</span></span></span>
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