Right moves : the conservative think tank in American political culture since 1945 /

Stahl, Jason M.,

Right moves : the conservative think tank in American political culture since 1945 / Jason M. Stahl. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The think tank in an era of "liberal consensus" -- Think tanks in a "marketplace of ideas" -- Think tanks in the age of Reagan -- Think tanks, new democrats, and committed conservatives -- Think tanks, foreign policy, and the marketplace of ideas in the 2000s -- Conclusion: policy as identity politics.

" ... Traces the progression of think tanks from the rise of a broad conservative movement and the turn away from New Deal liberalism, their expanding role in advancing a neoconservative foreign policy through U.S. military power from the 1980s onward, and their current prominence as a counterweight to progressive political institutions and thought"--



9781469627885


Conservatism--History--United States--20th century.
Conservatism--History--United States--21st century.
Research institutes--History.--United States
Political culture--United States.


Electronic Books.

JC573 / .R544 2016