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

by Schram, Sanford F.; Neisser, Philip T.; Best, Joel; Cruikshank, Barbara; Culverson, Donald R.; Daniels, R Scott; Fergerson, Gerard; Goldberg-Hiller, Jonathan; Green, Charles R.; Kling, Joseph; Krueger, Gary; Kurth-Schai, Ruthanne; Neisser, Phillip T.; Nit

• ISBN13: 9780847685035
• ISBN10: 0847685039
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-08-14
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Winning the West, Unwelcoming the Immigrant: Alternative Stories of "America"	p. 17
Constitutional Tales: Capitalist Origin Stories and U.S. Democracy	p. 27
Pluralizing the American Dream	p. 39
The Storyteller in Chief: Why Presidents Like to Tell Tales	p. 53
The Cycle of Representation: The House Republicans and the Contract with America	p. 63
Native Son: Stories of Self-Creation in the Judicial Politics of Clarence Thomas	p. 76
Talking Straight: Narrating the Political Economy of Gay Rights	p. 89
"It's Not Just Naked Women" - Regulating Transgressive Identities in Cyberspace	p. 102
Welfare Queens: Policing by the Numbers	p. 113
Tales of Black Criminality: Racial Determinism and Fatal Narratives	p. 125
Welfare Migration as a Policy Rumor: A Statistical Accounting	p. 139
Tales of the City: The Secret Life of Devolution	p. 150
The Entrepreneurial Gloss: The Myth of Small Business Job Growth	p. 163
The Vanishing White Man: Workforce 2000 and Tales of Demographic Transformation	p. 174
Schooling Stories: Three Paths, Two Tragedies, One Vision	p. 184
Rumors of Apartheid: Myth and Stereotype in U.S. Foreign Policy Toward South Africa	p. 199
National Security Tales and the End of the Cold War	p. 212
NAFTA Discourse: Tales of Sovereignty, Science, and Adjustment	p. 223
Is It Global Economics or Neo-Laissez-Faire?	p. 234
References	p. 242
Index	p. 265
About the Contributors	p. 269
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