Stahl, Jason M.,

Right moves the conservative think tank in American political culture since 1945 / [electronic resource] : Jason M. Stahl. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references 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"--

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


United States--Politics and government--1989-
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.


Electronic books.

JC573.2.U6 / S73 2016

320.520973