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Lakoff wrote Moral Politics soon after the Republican Party's "Contract With America" takeover of Congress under the Clinton presidency, and his usage of the terms "liberal" and "conservative" is strongly influenced by how those labels were used in the 1994 elections, the former having much to do with the Democratic party and the latter with ...
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Third Edition. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-41129-3. 2012 with Elisabeth Wehling. The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic. Free Press. ISBN 978-1-476-70001-4. 2010. "Why it Matters How We Frame the Environment" (PDF). Environmental ...
Reverend George Englehardt stated succinctly, in 1991, that "parental responsibility is to provide their children with a safe, loving, nurturing environment". [citation needed] The nurturant parent model is also discussed by George Lakoff in his books, including Moral Politics and Whose Freedom?
Lakoff argues that if the metaphor of nation as family and government as parent is used, then conservative politics correspond to the strict father model. For example, conservatives think that adults should refrain from looking to the government for assistance lest they become dependent.
Public Eye on Lakoff and framing; Rockridge Institute website; Rockridge Nation (Rockridge Institute community blog) Lakoff's Thinking Points available online; Clift, Eleanor (June 2006). "Rove's Trap - The president's strategist is politicizing the Iraq war for partisan political gain. Will the Dems figure out how to fight back?". Newsweek.
More recently, George Lakoff has claimed that the left/right distinction in politics comes from a difference between ideals of the family in the mind of the person in question; for right-wing people, the ideal is a patriarchical and moralistic family; for left-wing people, the ideal is an unconditionally loving family. As a result, Lakoff ...
The book could be compared with George Lakoff's 1996 book Moral Politics, which aims to answer a very similar question. Sowell's book has been published both with and without the subtitle "Ideological Origins of Political Struggles". Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate calls Sowell's explanation the best theory given to date. [2]
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind is a non-fiction book by the cognitive linguist George Lakoff.The book, first published by the University of Chicago Press in 1987, puts forward a model of cognition argued on the basis of semantics.