Tales of the State: Narrative in Contemporary U.S. Politics and Public Policy

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Sanford Schram, Philip T. Neisser
Rowman & Littlefield, 1997 - 270 sidor
The relationship between politics and storytelling is one with a well-established lineage, but public policy analysis has only recently begun to develop its own appreciation of the power of narrative to explain everything from political traditions to cyberspace. This unique collection of original essays helps further that project by surveying stories of and about all kinds of American politics-from welfare, race, and immigration; to workfare, jobs, and education; to gay rights, national security, and the American Dream in an age of economic globalization.

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Winning the West Unwelcoming the Immigrant Alternative Stories of America Michael J Shapiro
17
Constitutional Tales Capitalist Origin Stories and US Democracy Carl Swidorski
27
Pluralizing The American Dream Miriam B Rosenthal and Sanford F Schram
39
Institutions Actors and Narratives
51
The Storyteller in Chief Why Presidents Like to Tell Tales John Kenneth White
53
The Cycle of Representation The House Republicans and the Contract with America Sanford F Schram
63
Native Son Stories of SelfCreation and the Judicial Politics of Clarence Thomas Leslie J Vaughan
76
Identity Stories in Public Policy
87
Welfare Migration as a Policy Rumor A Statistical Accounting Sanford F Schram Lawrence Nitz and Gary Krueger
139
Tales of the City The Secret Life of Devolution Joseph Kling
150
The Entrepreneurial Gloss The Myth of Small Business Job Growth Phillip H Sandro
163
The Vanishing White Man Workforce 2000 and Tales of Demographic Transformation Joel Best
174
Schooling Stories Three Paths Two Tragedies One Vision Ruthanne KurthSchai and Charles R Green
184
Tales of Global Policy
197
Rumors of Apartheid Myth and Stereotype in US Foreign Policy Toward South Africa Donald R Culverson
199
National Security Tales and the End of the Cold War Joseph Peschek
212

Talking Straight Narrating the Political Economy of Gay Rights Jonathan GoldbergHiller
89
Its Not Just Naked Women Regulating Transgressive Identities in Cyberspace R Scott Daniels
102
Welfare Queens Policing by the Numbers Barbara Cruikshank
113
Tales of Black Criminality Racial Determinism and Fatal Narratives Gerard Fergerson
125
Tales of Domestic Policy
137
NAFTA Discourse Tales of Sovereignty Science and Adjustment Philip T Neisser
223
Is It Global Economics or NeoLaissezFaire? Frances Fox Piven
234
References
242
Index
265
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