The new majority : toward a popular progressive politics
Stanley B. Greenberg (Editor), Theda Skocpol (Editor)
In an era of widespread and unsettling change in families, businesses, and communities, most Americans yearn for a government that will take their side. The contributors to this bold and visionary book argue that America is ready for a progressive politics with substance and bite. They contend that by embarking on a popular progressive course, the Democratic Party can become the moral voice and practical partner of American families striving for a better life. This provocative book is a dialogue among Stanley B. Greenberg, Theda Skocpol, and other well-known thinkers. They reject conservative answers to America's most pressing problems - fraying social ties, hard-pressed families, sluggish economic growth, and widening gaps between the circumstances of the most privileged and those of everyone else. They urge a renewal of the nation's social contract, explain how to revitalize American democracy
xii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780300073416, 9780300078626, 0300073410, 0300078625
37853866
Contains essays first presented at "the New Majority conference ... [at] Airlie House in Virginia on January 10-12,1997"--Page xi