Understanding the Tea Party Movement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding the Tea Party Movement write by Nella Van Dyke. This book was released on 2016-02-24. Understanding the Tea Party Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hailing themselves as heirs to the American Revolution, the Tea Party movement staged tax day protests in over 750 US cities in April 2009, quickly establishing a large and volatile social movement. Tea Partiers protested at town hall meetings about health care across the country in August, leading to a large national demonstration in Washington on September 12, 2009. The movement spurred the formation (or redefinition) of several national organizations and many more local groups, and emerged as a strong force within the Republican Party. Self-described Tea Party candidates won victories in the November 2010 elections. Even as activists demonstrated their strength and entered government, the future of the movement's influence, and even its ultimate goals, are very much in doubt. In 2012, Barack Obama, the movement’s prime target, decisively won re-election, Congressional Republicans were unable to govern, and the Republican Party publicly wrestled with how to manage the insurgency within. Although there is a long history of conservative movements in America, the library of social movement studies leans heavily to the left. The Tea Party movement, its sudden emergence and its uncertain fate, provides a challenge to mainstream American politics. It also challenges scholars of social movements to reconcile this new movement with existing knowledge about social movements in America. Understanding the Tea Party Movement addresses these challenges by explaining why and how the movement emerged when it did, how it relates to earlier eruptions of conservative populism, and by raising critical questions about the movement's ultimate fate.
Understanding the Tea Party Movement
Understanding the Tea Party Movement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding the Tea Party Movement write by Nella Van Dyke. This book was released on 2014. Understanding the Tea Party Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Understanding the Tea Party Movement
Understanding the Tea Party Movement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding the Tea Party Movement write by Nella Van Dyke. This book was released on 2014. Understanding the Tea Party Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although there is a long history of conservative movements in America, the library of social movement studies leans heavily to the left. The Tea Party movement, its sudden emergence and its uncertain fate, provides a challenge to mainstream American politics. It also challenges scholars of social movements to reconcile this new movement with existing knowledge about social movements in America. Understanding the Tea Party Movement addresses these challenges by explaining why and how the movement emerged when it did, how it relates to earlier eruptions of conservative populism, and by raising critical questions about the movement's ultimate fate.
Steep
Steep - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Steep write by Lawrence Rosenthal. This book was released on 2012-08-14. Steep available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Tea Party Explained
The Tea Party Explained - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tea Party Explained write by Yuri Maltsev. This book was released on 2013-10-15. The Tea Party Explained available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Tea Party showed its strength in the 2010 mid-terms. Despite the opposition of leading Republicans like Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Lindsey Graham, 140 Tea Party candidates ran for Congress. Of the sixty House seats which moved from Democratic to Republican control, twenty-eight were won by Tea Party candidates. At the movement’s height, 29 percent of Americans had “some ties” to the Tea Party, while 2 percent identified themselves as active members. The Tea Party first attracted the media spotlight with Rick Santelli’s televised rant against the government’s bailout of mortgage borrowers on February 19, 2009, which instantly went viral as a video. As the authors document, however, “tea parties” associated with the Ron Paul movement had already been gathering momentum for more than a year. Beginning as a protest against government spending sprees and ballooning deficits, the Tea Party’s sudden fame forced it to define itself on many issues where the membership was seriously divided. The Tea Party is a coalition of different outlooks, united only by belief in small, debt-free government and low taxes. Fiscal conservatives, who were usually liberal on social issues and against American military interventions, battled social conservatives, in an uneasy series of maneuvers which continues unresolved and is described in the book. The Tea Party Explained, written by two Tea Party activists who know the movement inside and out, is aimed at the intrigued and curious reader who wants to find out more about this unique phenomenon. The book gives a well-documented account of the Tea Party, its origins, its evolution, the bitter squabbles over its direction, its amazing successes in 2010, and its electoral rebuff in 2012. Maltsev and Skaskiw analyze the demographics of the Tea Party, the many organizations which have tried to represent, appropriate, or infiltrate the movement, and the ideological divisions in its ranks. The authors evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the Tea Party and its likely future impact. A movement with strong local roots in many cities, firmly supported by a quarter of the US population, will not evaporate after one big defeat, and can be counted on to influence events for decades to come.
