Rachel S. Turner
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748632688
- eISBN:
- 9780748652792
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748632688.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
Neo-liberalism has been one of the most influential ideologies since the Second World War. This book provides an original account of its intellectual foundations, development, and conceptual ...
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Neo-liberalism has been one of the most influential ideologies since the Second World War. This book provides an original account of its intellectual foundations, development, and conceptual configuration as an ideology. It presents a comparative study of the development and nature of neo-liberal ideas in the national contexts of Germany, Britain, and the United States since the twentieth century, addressing the following questions: What are neo-liberalism's intellectual origins? What influence did neo-liberalism have on public policy debates? What are neo-liberalism's core concepts, and how have they been interpreted in different national contexts that make it a distinctive ideology? In answering these questions, the book provides a deeper insight into the historical and intellectual origins and conceptual configuration of an ideology that reshaped politics and societies across the world. It explores the intellectual and historical genesis of neo-liberalism, presents a case study of ideological growth and formation, and concentrates on the four core concepts at the centre of neo-liberal ideology: the market, welfare, the constitution, and property.Less
Neo-liberalism has been one of the most influential ideologies since the Second World War. This book provides an original account of its intellectual foundations, development, and conceptual configuration as an ideology. It presents a comparative study of the development and nature of neo-liberal ideas in the national contexts of Germany, Britain, and the United States since the twentieth century, addressing the following questions: What are neo-liberalism's intellectual origins? What influence did neo-liberalism have on public policy debates? What are neo-liberalism's core concepts, and how have they been interpreted in different national contexts that make it a distinctive ideology? In answering these questions, the book provides a deeper insight into the historical and intellectual origins and conceptual configuration of an ideology that reshaped politics and societies across the world. It explores the intellectual and historical genesis of neo-liberalism, presents a case study of ideological growth and formation, and concentrates on the four core concepts at the centre of neo-liberal ideology: the market, welfare, the constitution, and property.
Dale F. Lott
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520233386
- eISBN:
- 9780520930742
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520233386.003.0023
- Subject:
- Biology, Natural History and Field Guides
Today, the hide hunt and the hide hunters seem utterly foreign to most of us. The hide hunters have achieved the anomalous status of despised frontiersmen. Public policy toward wilderness and wild ...
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Today, the hide hunt and the hide hunters seem utterly foreign to most of us. The hide hunters have achieved the anomalous status of despised frontiersmen. Public policy toward wilderness and wild things implements attitudes — private values. The value we put on animals feels so natural and right and inevitable that it's a shock when we first learn that others feel differently about an animal's death. There is no more dramatic illustration of such differences and their consequences than the public policy debate in the 1870s about the fate of the bison. At one level it was about consequences: impact on Native Americans, impact on the bison as a natural resource, proposed legislation. But the debate drew on, and illustrated, basic attitudes toward wildlife in general and bison in particular. Then as now, attitudes were mixed.Less
Today, the hide hunt and the hide hunters seem utterly foreign to most of us. The hide hunters have achieved the anomalous status of despised frontiersmen. Public policy toward wilderness and wild things implements attitudes — private values. The value we put on animals feels so natural and right and inevitable that it's a shock when we first learn that others feel differently about an animal's death. There is no more dramatic illustration of such differences and their consequences than the public policy debate in the 1870s about the fate of the bison. At one level it was about consequences: impact on Native Americans, impact on the bison as a natural resource, proposed legislation. But the debate drew on, and illustrated, basic attitudes toward wildlife in general and bison in particular. Then as now, attitudes were mixed.
Elisabeth S. Clemens and Doug Guthrie (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226109961
- eISBN:
- 9780226109985
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226109985.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
Exhorting people to volunteer is part of the everyday vocabulary of American politics. Routinely, members of both major parties call for partnerships between government and nonprofit organizations. ...
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Exhorting people to volunteer is part of the everyday vocabulary of American politics. Routinely, members of both major parties call for partnerships between government and nonprofit organizations. These entreaties increase dramatically during times of crisis, and the voluntary efforts of ordinary citizens are now seen as a necessary supplement to government intervention. But despite the ubiquity of the idea of volunteerism in public policy debates, analysis of its role in American governance has been fragmented. Bringing together a diverse set of disciplinary approaches, this book is a thorough examination of the place of voluntary associations in political history and an astute investigation into contemporary experiments in reshaping that role. The essays here reveal the key role nonprofits have played in the evolution of both the workplace and welfare, and illuminate the way that government's retreat from welfare has radically altered the relationship between nonprofits and corporations.Less
Exhorting people to volunteer is part of the everyday vocabulary of American politics. Routinely, members of both major parties call for partnerships between government and nonprofit organizations. These entreaties increase dramatically during times of crisis, and the voluntary efforts of ordinary citizens are now seen as a necessary supplement to government intervention. But despite the ubiquity of the idea of volunteerism in public policy debates, analysis of its role in American governance has been fragmented. Bringing together a diverse set of disciplinary approaches, this book is a thorough examination of the place of voluntary associations in political history and an astute investigation into contemporary experiments in reshaping that role. The essays here reveal the key role nonprofits have played in the evolution of both the workplace and welfare, and illuminate the way that government's retreat from welfare has radically altered the relationship between nonprofits and corporations.
Allan Bérubé
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834794
- eISBN:
- 9781469603117
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807877982_berube.7
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
This essay describes how Berube devoted himself to historical research that was specifically sexual in its focus. The result was intervention in the public policy debates about how to respond to the ...
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This essay describes how Berube devoted himself to historical research that was specifically sexual in its focus. The result was intervention in the public policy debates about how to respond to the epidemic. Based on another innovative slide lecture and first published in a San Francisco gay newspaper in the immediate wake of the city's closure of gay bathhouses, the essay builds on and extends the thematic concerns of the previous two essays. Here, Berube describes gay male sexuality and the places where it could be expressed as forms and sites of resistance. Sexual expression became a route to the creation of community, and the bathhouses proved to be key locations where this happened over time. Arguing that, in the past, attempts at repression have failed, Berube calls instead for more creative solutions that make use of gay male spaces such as bathhouses to educate the community about safer sex practices.Less
This essay describes how Berube devoted himself to historical research that was specifically sexual in its focus. The result was intervention in the public policy debates about how to respond to the epidemic. Based on another innovative slide lecture and first published in a San Francisco gay newspaper in the immediate wake of the city's closure of gay bathhouses, the essay builds on and extends the thematic concerns of the previous two essays. Here, Berube describes gay male sexuality and the places where it could be expressed as forms and sites of resistance. Sexual expression became a route to the creation of community, and the bathhouses proved to be key locations where this happened over time. Arguing that, in the past, attempts at repression have failed, Berube calls instead for more creative solutions that make use of gay male spaces such as bathhouses to educate the community about safer sex practices.
