Transforming power relationships: leadership, risk, and hope
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The famous Tip O'Neill axiom "all politics is local" comes alive in this chronicle of Democrat James H. Read's hard-fought but unsuccessful-by 98 votes-bid for state legislature in the socially conservative communities of Stearns and Morrison Counties, Minnesota. Read door-knocked 7,500 households during his campaign, visiting with voters and engaging in genuine dialogue on doorsteps from St. Anthony to St. Joseph. At once a memoir of a hard-fought contest and a meditation on the state of American democracy, Read's work contrasts the modern media-driven political campaign, where candidates gle
The famous Tip O'Neill axiom "all politics is local" comes alive in this chronicle of Democrat James H. Read's hard-fought but unsuccessful--by 98 votes--bid for state legislature in the socially conservative communities of Stearns and Morrison Counties, Minnesota. Read door-knocked 7,500 households during his campaign, visiting with voters and engaging in genuine dialogue on doorsteps from St. Anthony to St. Joseph. At once a memoir of a hard-fought contest and a meditation on the state of American democracy, Read's work contrasts the modern media-driven political campaign, where candidates gle
Does every increase in the power of government entail a loss of liberty for the people? James H. Read examines how four key Founders--James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, James Wilson, and Thomas Jefferson--wrestled with this question during the first two decades of the American Republic. Power versus Liberty reconstructs a four-way conversation--sometimes respectful, sometimes shrill--that touched on the most important issues facing the new nation: the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, federal authority versus states' rights, freedom of the press, the controversial Bank of the United States, the relation between nationalism and democracy, and the elusive meaning of "the consent of the governed."Each of the men whose thought Read considers differed on these key questions. Jefferson believed that every increase in the power of government came at the expense of liberty: energetic governments, he insisted, are always oppressive. Madison believed that this view was too simple, that liberty can be threatened either by too much or too little governmental power. Hamilton and Wilson likewise rejected the Jeffersonian view of power and liberty but disagreed with Madison and with each other. The question of how to reconcile energetic government with the liberty of citizens is as timely today as it was in the first decades of the Republic. It pervades our political discourse and colors our readings of events from the confrontation at Waco to the Oklahoma City bombing to Congressional debate over how to spend the government surplus. While the rhetoric of both major political parties seems to posit a direct relationship between the size of our government and the scope of our political freedoms, the debates of Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, and Jefferson confound such simple dichotomies. As Read concludes, the relation between power and liberty is inherently complex
In: American political thought: a journal of ideas, institutions, and culture, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 418-421
ISSN: 2161-1599
In: American political thought: a journal of ideas, institutions, and culture, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 666-670
ISSN: 2161-1599
In: American political thought: a journal of ideas, institutions, and culture, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 156-159
ISSN: 2161-1599
In: Publius: the journal of federalism, Band 46, Heft 3, S. 337-365
ISSN: 1747-7107
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 211-212
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: Publius: the journal of federalism, Band 46, Heft 3, S. 337-365
ISSN: 0048-5950
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 128, Heft 4, S. 786-788
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: The review of politics, Band 75, Heft 3, S. 457-459
ISSN: 1748-6858
In: Political science quarterly: PSQ ; the journal public and international affairs, Band 128, Heft 4, S. 786-788
ISSN: 0032-3195
In: APSA 2013 Annual Meeting Paper
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