Words that Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear by Dr Frank Luntz, Hyperion, 324 pp., $15 paperFrank Luntz became a familiar face in the build up to the 2007 general election. He worked with RTE television presenting the views of focus groups on a wide range of issues. What was not so well known however is that Frank Luntz is recognised in the US as the Republican Party’s most famous spin doctor of the past fifteen years. His work has focused on taking ideologically extreme proposals he favours and finding the words to make them sound acceptable to the average American. The best known example of this was in 1994 when he helped to compose the Contract with America for Newt Gingrich. |
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The Ethics of Stakeholding by Keith Dowding, Jurgen De Wispelaere and Stuart White, Palgrave.
Macmillan, 2006, hardbackThe welfare state has come under serious pressure across much of the Western world in recent decades. The changing economic and social situation has presented major challenges to a welfare state model that was designed for an earlier era. The failure of many countries to adjust their welfare systems in a meaningful and effective way has led to widespread inequality, poverty, unemployment, social exclusion and a greater sense of insecurity. |
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God’s Politics: Why the American Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It is the title of a book by Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners. It is written from a religious perspective and argues that religion has been hijacked and distorted by the religious right in the USA. His criticism is not reserved for the right. In his call for a progressive, faith-based politics of the centre, Wallis contends that the left has lost out by ignoring the religious dimension of US politics. Pointing to the impact of the civil rights movement, which was inspired by religion, he urges both right and left to think again. |
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