The Political Spectrum

Author : Thomas Winslow Hazlett
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030022110X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Spectrum written by Thomas Winslow Hazlett and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the former chief economist of the FCC, a remarkable history of the U.S. government’s regulation of the airwaves Popular legend has it that before the Federal Radio Commission was established in 1927, the radio spectrum was in chaos, with broadcasting stations blasting powerful signals to drown out rivals. In this fascinating and entertaining history, Thomas Winslow Hazlett, a distinguished scholar in law and economics, debunks the idea that the U.S. government stepped in to impose necessary order. Instead, regulators blocked competition at the behest of incumbent interests and, for nearly a century, have suppressed innovation while quashing out-of-the-mainstream viewpoints. Hazlett details how spectrum officials produced a “vast wasteland” that they publicly criticized but privately protected. The story twists and turns, as farsighted visionaries—and the march of science—rise to challenge the old regime. Over decades, reforms to liberate the radio spectrum have generated explosive progress, ushering in the “smartphone revolution,” ubiquitous social media, and the amazing wireless world now emerging. Still, the author argues, the battle is not even half won.

Author : David R. Young
Publisher : Dry Productions
ISBN 13 : 9780985870706
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Spectrum written by David R. Young and published by Dry Productions. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new look at the political spectrum and the path America is on.

Author : William S. Maddox
Publisher : Cato Institute
ISBN 13 : 1935308645
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Liberal and Conservative written by William S. Maddox and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 1984-12-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politicians and political analysts continue to use a single liberal-conservative dimension to analyze the ideological views of the American people, but that approach is increasingly inadequate. Professors Maddox and Lilie have gone beyond the liberal-conservative continuum. By separating questions aof economic policy from issues involving civil liberties, they find four basic ideological group: liberals, conservatives, libertarians, and populists. This book goes a long way toward explaining such phenomena as ticket-splitting, the impact of the baby-boom generation, and the internal conflicts both major parties will face over the next few years.

Author : Anthony C. Patton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781628941685
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Spectrum written by Anthony C. Patton and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political Spectrum' sets out to identify the timeless, universal principles of political philosophy that shape how we live as a society, from democracy in Ancient Greece and the aristocracies of the Enlightenment to the tribal lands of Pakistan and the modern state that is the United States of America.Unlike most political philosophies that rest on traditional foundations such as rights, private property, or human nature, The Political Spectrum focuses on the fundamental ideas dividing the left and the right today to identify a rational middle ground.Tracing the most insightful ideas from great thinkers in the Western tradition, The Political Spectrum identifies two fundamental institutions that all societies must manage in a rational way in order to survive.Along the way, the book explores the tension between liberty and the individual's duty to society and the proper roles of family and state. Basing the analysis on the four pillars of political philosophy--human nature, institutions, wealth, and justice--The Political Spectrum offers a vision for resolving the political divide in a way that promotes liberty and prosperity.

Author : David L. Bender
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Spectrum written by David L. Bender and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1986 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of articles, the terms liberal and conservative are explored and their differences highlighted.

Author : Jan Zienkowski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902726225X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Peoples of Europe written by Jan Zienkowski and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political landscape in Europe is currently going through a phase of rapid change. New actors and movements that claim to represent 'the will of the people' are attracting considerable public attention, with dramatic consequences for election outcomes. This volume explores the new political order with a particular focus on discursive constructions of 'the people' and the category of populism across the spectrum. It shows how a unitary representation of 'the people' is a central element in a vast range of very diverse political discourses today, acting to anchor identities and project antagonisms in a multitude of settings. The chapters in this book explore commonality and contrast in representations of ‘the people’ in both radical and mainstream political movements, looking in depth at recent political discourses in the European sphere. The authors draw on approaches ranging from Essex-style discourse theory over critical discourse studies, corpus analysis and linguistic pragmatics, to investigate how historically situated categories such as the people and populism become fixed through local linguistic, textual and narrative practices as well as through wider ideological and discursive patterns. As of January 2023, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.

Author : Anthony C. Patton
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628941707
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Spectrum written by Anthony C. Patton and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Political Spectrum' sets out to identify the timeless, universal principles of political philosophy that shape how we live as a society, from democracy in Ancient Greece and the aristocracies of the Enlightenment to the tribal lands of Pakistan and the modern state that is the United States of America. Unlike most political philosophies that rest on traditional foundations such as rights, private property, or human nature, The Political Spectrum focuses on the fundamental ideas dividing the left and the right today to identify a rational middle ground. Tracing the most insightful ideas from great thinkers in the Western tradition, The Political Spectrum identifies two fundamental institutions that all societies must manage in a rational way in order to survive. Along the way, the book explores the tension between liberty and the individual’s duty to society and the proper roles of family and state. Basing the analysis on the four pillars of political philosophy—human nature, institutions, wealth, and justice—The Political Spectrum offers a vision for resolving the political divide in a way that promotes liberty and prosperity. What values do we need to promote for the overall wellbeing of mankind? Is there a "correct" position on the political spectrum that we imagine spanning from the far left to the far right? We all seem to have an intuitive grasp of what "left" and "right" or "progressive" and "conservative" mean, but most people would not agree on all the specifics. Can a conservative ever support the right of a woman to have an abortion? Can a liberal ever support the rights of a fetus? This book aims to bring some clarity to the left-right political spectrum, as well as to identify which point along the spectrum is best positioned to promote liberty and sustainable prosperity in a modern state. The author concludes that two essential principles would be a prohibition on deficit spending and upholding the sanctity of monogamous procreation.

Author : Verlan Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197680631
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Left and Right written by Verlan Lewis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking argument that the political spectrum today is inadequate to twenty-first century America and a major source of the confusion and hostility that characterize contemporary political discourse. As American politics descends into a battle of anger and hostility between two groups called "left" and "right," people increasingly ask: What is the essential difference between these two ideological groups? In The Myth of Left and Right, Hyrum Lewis and Verlan Lewis provide the surprising answer: nothing. As the authors argue, there is no enduring philosophy, disposition, or essence uniting the various positions associated with the liberal and conservative ideologies of today. Far from being an eternal dividing line of American politics, the political spectrum came to the United States in the 1920s and, since then, left and right have evolved in so many unpredictable and even contradictory ways that there is currently nothing other than tribal loyalty holding together the many disparate positions that fly under the banners of "liberal" and "conservative." Powerfully argued and cutting against the grain of most scholarship on polarization in America, this book shows why the idea that the political spectrum measures deeply held worldviews is the central political myth of our time and a major cause of the confusion and vitriol that characterize public discourse.

Author : L. K. Samuels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780961589318
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killing History written by L. K. Samuels and published by . This book was released on 1919-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost everything about the political spectrum is dead wrong. If the two polar opposites are Communism versus Fascism, what is in the middle? If the middle is halfway between Communism and Fascism, then everyone not on the extreme ends must be half-communist and half-fascist? Nobody believes that, but the old political spectrum prescribes that exact political scenario. So what happened? In an effort to rewrite history, the political dichotomy has been deliberately broken, falsified, sabotaged, and made meaningless, causing the public to lose their way through the contorted political maze. With well-over 1,500 footnotes from historians and political scientists, this book refurbishes the political spectrum and restores it to its original French Revolution roots and common sense approach. Now anyone can navigate the political swamplands with a faithful compass to triangulate one's own political position and peel back layers of distorted history.

Author : Verlan Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197680216
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Left and Right written by Verlan Lewis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "AMERICAN POLITICS IS AT a breaking point. This became obvious when a mob of American citizens, upset with the results of the 2020 presidential election, stormed the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. to stop Congress from tabulating the election results. In order to work, democracies require citizens who respect the rights of individuals, defer to the outcomes of elections, and abide by the rule of law, but today's toxic political culture has caused many Americans to abandon these vital norms. Ideological tribalism and partisan hatred have become so rampant that frightening numbers of American citizens countenance violence against their political opponents to get their way"--