THE POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY OF COLD WAR AMERICAN MORALITY

Abstract

This article applies political sociology and philosophy to the problem of declining morality in the American polity, particularly the moral contents and effects of the acts of American presidents and their administrations during the cold war. It is not concerned with a politics of morality in the partisan sense of what is considered conservative or liberal. It examines the political morality of American leadership as a cold war world leader in the last half of the twentieth century and its direct effect upon the American republic and polity.

Citation

Hanson, J. (1996), "THE POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY OF COLD WAR AMERICAN MORALITY", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 16 No. 1/2, pp. 88-101. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013242