Американската политика: Обещанието за дисхармония (книга от Самюъл Хънтингтън на английски език)
Samuel P. Huntington (автор)
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This persuasive book examines the persistent, radical gap between the promise of the American ideals of liberty, equality, and hostility to authority and the performance of American politics. It is an explanation of how government really works, and it suggests a new theory about the rise of reform movements.
"An illuminating book, ambitious in range and ingenious in analysis .. . Filled with imaginative insights."
— New York Times Book Review
A "brilliant book . . . [Huntington addresses] contemporary concerns with a masterly command of theory and history which will ensure his book an enduring place as a work of scholarship."
— The New Republic
"An exceptional book, combining political theory with American history and contemporary policy analysis in a fashion that will challenge and inform any reader interested in the American experience."
— Boston Globe
"[Huntington] squarely confronts the problem of legitimating American power at home and abroad and argues persuasively ... for his exceptionalist political vision. Few have the courage—fewer the talent—to pose and systematically answer the critical questions that Huntington raises."
— American Political Science Review
"This controversial book . . . will change the way we think about American political and social behavior."
— Seymour Martin Lipset
Samuel P. Huntington is Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University.
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CONTENTS
1 The Disharmonic Polity 1
"Our Practice of Your Principles" 1
The One, the Two, and the Many: Structural Paradigms of A merican Politics 5
Ideals versus Institutions 10
2 The American Creed and National Identity 13
Political Thought in A merica 13
Sources, Scope, and Stability of the Creed 14
Political Ideas and National Identity 23
3 The Gap: The American Creed versus Political Authority 31
Consensus and Instability 31
The Gap in Comparative Perspective 42
4 Coping with the Gap 61
The A merican Case of Cognitive Dissonance 61
Patterns of Response 64
The Gap and American Political Style 75
5 The Politics of Creedal Passion 85
Creedal Passion Periods in American History 85 The Climate of Creedal Passion 91
Creedal Conflict: The Movement and the Establishment 105
Reform and Its Limits 112
Political Earthquakes and Realignment 122
6 The Sources of Creedal Passion 130 Why Creedal Passion Periods? 130
General Sources: Comparable Phenomena in Other Societies 131
Specific Sources: The Timing of Creedal Passion Periods 138
Original Sources: The Roots of It All in the English Revolution 149
The Protestantism of A merican Politics 154
7 TheS&S Years, 1960-1975 167
From the Fifties to the Seventies: The Changing Pattern of Response 167
Complacency and the End (?) of Ideology 169
Interlude of Hypocrisy, Surge of Moralism 173
The Mobilization of Protest 180
The Dynamics of Exposure 188
The Legacies 196 Reform and the IvI Gap 197
Institutional Realignment 203
The Misuse and Erosion of A uthority 211
Cynicism and the Restoration of Authority 214
8 The Viability of American Ideals and Institutions 221
The Future of the Gap 221
History versus Progress? 222
America versus the World? 236
Power and Liberty: The Myth of American Repression 246
The Promise of Disappointment 259
Notes 265
Index 293
