Tag: Conservatives

Open for Business Conservatives’ Opposition to Environmental Regulation (American and Comparative Environmental Policy


Free Download Judith A Layzer, "Open for Business: Conservatives’ Opposition to Environmental Regulation (American and Comparative Environmental Policy "
English | ISBN: 0262018276 | 2012 | 499 pages | PDF | 6 MB
A detailed analysis of the policy effects of conservatives’ decades-long effort to dismantle the federal regulatory framework for environmental protection.

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Resistance from the Right Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America [Audiobook]


Free Download Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, Emily Durante (Narrator), "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America"
English | ASIN: B0CPMF4932 | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~10:11:00 | 302 MB
Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal education.
This book explores the story of how stakeholders in American higher education organized and reacted to challenges to their power from the New Left and Black Power student resistance movements of the late 1960s. By examining the range of conservative student organizations and coalition building, Shepherd shows how wealthy donors and conservative intellectuals trained future GOP leaders such as Karl Rove, Bill Barr, Jeff Sessions, Pat Buchanan, and others in conservative politics, providing them with tactics to consciously drive American politics and culture further to the authoritarian right and to "reclaim" American higher education.

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Moral Politics How Liberals and Conservatives Think, 3rd Edition [Audiobook]


Free Download Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, 3rd Edition (Audiobook)
English | December 26, 2017 | ASIN: B078JWSYWB | M4B@64 kbps | 13h 57m | 388 MB
Author: George Lakoff | Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi
When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff’s classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to hold even more vigorously opposed views of the world, with the underlying assumptions of their respective worldviews at the level of basic morality. Even more so than when Lakoff wrote, liberals and conservatives simply have very different, deeply held beliefs about what is right and wrong.
Lakoff reveals radically different but remarkably consistent conceptions of morality on both the left and right. Moral worldviews, like most deep ways of understanding the world, are unconscious – part of our "hard-wired" brain circuitry. When confronted with facts that don’t fit our moral worldview, our brains work automatically and unconsciously to ignore or reject these facts, and it takes extraordinary openness and awareness of this phenomenon to pay critical attention to the vast number of facts we are presented with each day.

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