Cultural Wars in American Politics

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Cultural Wars in American Politics is written by Rhys H. Williams and published by Transaction Publishers. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0202305643 (ISBN 10) and 9780202305646 (ISBN 13).

The most systematic academic version of the culture wars claim has appeared in two influential books by sociologist James Davison Hunter, the earlier dating from 1991. Hunter's formulation of the myth serves the contributors to this volume as a point of departure. They add more measured analyses to the rhetorical overstatement in Hunter's claim, assessing its accuracy with a broad range of evidence based on individual attitudes, subcultural values, political party dynamics, and culture-wide ideological currents. On every level of analysis, the contributors find that Hunter's bipolar axis obscures the variety of ways in which culture actually functions in current politics. That variety receives the nuanced treatment it deserves in this collection.