Left and Right The Significance of a Political Distinction

Name: Left and Right The Significance of a Political Distinction
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ISBN: 9780226062464

ISBN-10: 0226062465

ISBN-13: 9780226062464

Edition: 1996

Authors: Norberto Bobbio, Allan Cameron

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Politicians and pundits have long disparaged their opponents with polemicist cries of "leftist!" or "rightist!" But with the fall of communism and the recent conservative ascendancy in the United States and Europe, many commentators have flatly declared that the traditional left/right distinction has lost its relevance. Now, even as political players scramble to redefine themselves with freshly "spun" labels, Norberto Bobbio asserts that the demise of the left/right distinction has been greatly exaggerated. Bobbio argues that left and right are not absolute terms, but represent a shifting map of the political spectrum, relative to the particular cultural and historical contexts of a given…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 148
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.75" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Introduction


Preface to the First Italian Edition



A Challenge to the Distinction



Extremists and Moderates



The Left/Right Distinction Survives



In Search of the Criterion which Governs the Distinction



Other Criteria



Equality and Inequality



Freedom and Authoritarianism



The Pole Star A Reply to the Critics (1995) Notes