The Cultivation of Resentment: Treaty Rights and the New Right - Couverture rigide

Dudas, Jeffrey R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0804758093 ISBN 13 : 9780804758093

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

The Cultivation of Resentment is one of the first book-length examinations of how grassroots conservative activists use rights discourse to pursue their political goals. It argues that conservative activists engage in frequent and sincere mobilizations of rights talk--a discourse that includes accusations that socially marginal Americans are seeking un-American, "special" rights that violate the nation's commitment to equal rights. The Cultivation of Resentment finds that such rights talk is central both to the identities of conservative activists and to the broad appeal of modern New Right politics.

However, through an in-depth case study of opposition on the Indian treaty rights, this book establishes that the impact of conservative rights talk is ultimately ambiguous. While conservative rights discourse effectively expresses the nationalistic resentment that saturates New Right politics, it deflects critical scrutiny from the actual causes of that resentment. By tracing the interplay of rights and resentment, The Cultivation of Resentment adds new insight to the prevailing scholarship on law and politics, which typically overlooks the importance of rights discourse for conservative politics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jeffrey R. Dudas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804758093
• ISBN 13: 9780804758093
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible