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Neoconservative Politics and the Supreme Court

Law, Power, and Democracy
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In this concise, timely book, constitutional law expert Stephen M. Feldman draws on neoconservative writings to explore the rise of the neocons and their influence on the Supreme Court. Neocons burst onto the political scene in the early 1980s via their assault on pluralist democracy's ethical relativism, where no pre-existing or higher principles limit the agendas of interest groups. Instead, they advocated for a resurrection of republican democracy, which declares that virtuous citizens and officials pursue the common good. Yet despite their original goals, neocons quickly became an interest group themselves, competing successfully within the pluralist democratic arena. When the political winds shifted in 2008, however, neocons found themselves shorn of power in Congress and the executive branch. But portentously, theystill controlled the Supreme Court. Neoconservative Politics and the Supreme Court explains how and why the neoconservatives criticized but operated within pluralist democracy, and, most important, what the entrenchment of neocons on the Supreme Court means for present and future politics and law.
(FYI: Pared-down TOC below. Actual is more detailed/has tons of subsections, etc.!) 1. Reagan, Cross-Pollination, and Neoconservatism: An Introduction2. From Republican to Pluralist Democracy 3. Pluralist Democracy: Dissent and Evolution 4. On Neoconservatism 5. The Supreme Court and Neoconservatism 6. The Supreme Court in the Future
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