Studying the US Political Right: General Bibliography
Concepts and Theories-Introductory
Overview of Debate over Analyzing the Right
Promoting Countersubversion Theory
Promoting Centrist/Extremist Theory
Criticism of Centrist/Extremist Theory
Complex Social Movement Theories - Stressing Rationality
Structuralist Critiques of Power that Avoid Conspiracism
Concepts and Theories
Concepts and Theories-Introductory
Books & Reports
- Norberto Bobbio, Left & Right: The Significance of Political Distinction, translated, (Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996 (original Italian edition 1994)).
- Roger Eatwell and Noel O'Sullivan, eds. The Nature of the Right: American and European Politics and Political Thought Since 1789, (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989).
- G. William Domhoff, Who Rules America Now: A View for the `80's, (New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1986, (1983)).
- Aldon D. Morris and Carol McClung Mueller, eds., Frontiers in Social Movement Theory, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992).
- Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action and Politics, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
- John Lofland, Social Movement Organizations: Guide to Research on Insurgent Realities, (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1996).
- Steven M. Buechler and F. Kurt Cylke, Jr., eds., Social Movements: Perspectives and Issues, (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1997).
Concepts and Theories-General
This section was created in part by reviewing bibliographies and footenotes from John C. Green, Sara Diamond, Jerome L. Himmelstein, Betty A. Dobratz, Stephanie L. Shanks-Meile, James Danky, and John Cherney.
Books & Reports
- Norberto Bobbio, Left & Right: The Significance of Political Distinction, translated, (Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996 (original Italian edition 1994)).
- Roger Eatwell and Noel O'Sullivan, eds. The Nature of the Right: American and European Politics and Political Thought Since 1789, (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989).
Overview of Debate over Analyzing the Right
Books & Reports
- William B. Hixson, Jr., Search for the American Right Wing: An Analysis of the Social Science Record, 1955-1987, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992).
Promoting Countersubversion Theory
Books & Reports
- William R. Kintner, The Front Is Everywhere, (Norman, OK: University Of Oklahoma Press, 1950).
- J. Edgar Hoover, Communist Target--Youth: Communist Infiltration and Agitation Tactics, (Washington, DC: House Committee on Un-American Activities, US Government Printing Office, 1960).
- J. Edgar Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover On Communism, (New York: Paperback Library, 1970).
- Alan Stang, It's Very Simple: The True Story of Civil Rights, (Boston and Los Angeles: Western Islands, 1965).
- Blair Coan, The Red Web: 1921 1924, (Boston and Los Angeles: Western Islands, 1969).
- Burnham, The Web of Subversion, (Boston and Los Angeles: Western Islands, 1965).
Promoting Centrist/Extremist Theory
Books & Reports
- Daniel Bell, ed., The Radical Right: The New American Right Expanded And Updated, (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc. , 1964).
- Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, The Politics of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1970 (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970).
- Richard Hofstadter," The Paranoid Style in American Politics," in The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965).
- Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963).
- Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F. D. R. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. , Random House, Inc., 1955).
- Arnold Forster and Benjamin R. Epstein, Danger on the Right. (New York: Random House, 1964).
Criticism of Centrist/Extremist Theory
Books & Reports
- Michael Rogin, The Intellectuals And McCarthy: The Radical Specter (Cambridge: The M. I. T. Press, 1967), especially, pp. 261-282.
- Richard O. Curry And Thomas M. Brown, Eds.," Introduction," Conspiracy: The Fear Of Subversion In American History, (New York: Holt, Rinehart And Winston, 1972), especially, pp. xii-xi.
- Leo P. Ribuffo, The Old Christian Right: The Protestant Far Right from the Great Depression to the Cold War (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), especially, pp. 237-257.
- Margaret Canovan, Populism (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981), especially, pp. 46-51, 179-190.
- Jerome L. Himmelstein, To The Right: The Transformation Of American Conservatism, (Berkeley: Univ. Of California Press, 1990), especially, pp. 1-5, 72-76, 152-164.
- Sara Diamond, Roads To Dominion: Right-Wing Movements And Political Power In The United States (New York: The Guilford Press, 1995), especially, pp. 5-6, 40-41.
- Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American History. (New York: Basic Books, 1995). especially, pp. 190-193.
- Robert A. Schoenberger, ed., The American Right Wing: Readings in Political Behavior, (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969).
- Charles Jeffrey Kraft, A Preliminary Socio-Economic & State Demographic Profile of the John Birch Society, (Cambridge, MA: PRA, 1992).
- Betty A. Dobratz and Stephanie Shanks-Meile, "White Power, White Pride!" The White Separatist Movement in the United States, (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997).
Complex Social Movement Theories - Stressing Rationality
Books & Reports
- Aldon D. Morris and Carol McClung Mueller, eds., Frontiers in Social Movement Theory, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992).
- Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action and Politics, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
- John Lofland, Social Movement Organizations: Guide to Research on Insurgent Realities, (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1996).
- Steven M. Buechler and F. Kurt Cylke, Jr., eds., Social Movements: Perspectives and Issues, (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1997).
- Hank Johnston and Bert Klandermans, eds., Social Movements and Culture (Social Movements, Protest, and Contention, Vol 4), (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1995).
- J. Craig Jenkins and Bert Klandermans, eds., The Politics of Social Protest: Comparative Perspectives on States and Social Movements (Social Movements, Protest, and Contention, V. 3), (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1995).
- Bert Klandermans, The Social Psychology of Protest, (New York: Blackwell, 1997).
- Donatella Della Porta., volume ed.; Bert Klandermans, series ed. "Social Movements and Violence: Participation in Underground Organizations," International Social Movement Research, Vol 4.; (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1992)
- Klandermans, Bert, Hanspeter Kriesi and Sidney Tarrow (eds) "From structure to action; Comparing Movements Across Cultures," International Social Movement Research, Vol.1 (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1988).
Structuralist Critiques of Power that Avoid Conspiracism
Books & Reports
- Wright Mills, The Power Elite, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1956).
- G. William Domhoff, The Powers That Be: Processes of Ruling Class Domination in America, (New York: Vintage Books, 1979, (1978)).
- Domhoff, Who Rules America Now: A View for the `80's, (New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1986, (1983)).
- Holly Sklar, ed., Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management, (Boston: South End Press, 1980).
- Sklar, Reagan, Trilateralism and the Neoliberals: Containment and Intervention in the 1980s, (Boston: South End Press (Pamphlet No. 4), 1986).
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