Fickle Winds: Ideological Conflict, Political Caricatures of the Poor, and the New Terrorist Threat

40 Pages Posted: 21 Aug 2016

Date Written: August 16, 2016

Abstract

During the Great Depression global political and economic circumstances colluded in such a way as to encourage the USA to treat poverty as a social rather than an individual-level problem. In the 1930s, abjuring sympathy for its economically depressed citizens could have invoked a dangerous climate in which Americans might have been motivated to view the USSR’s worker-oriented political system more favorably. Subsequently, poverty definitions and policies have been blown about capriciously with the regular shift of political and economic tides.

Keywords: Poverty, Welfare, Ideology, Terror, Terrorism, Democracy, Politics, Power, Deceit

Suggested Citation

McGettigan, Timothy, Fickle Winds: Ideological Conflict, Political Caricatures of the Poor, and the New Terrorist Threat (August 16, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2824737 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2824737

Timothy McGettigan (Contact Author)

Colorado State University - Pueblo ( email )

Department of Sociology
2200 Bonforte Blvd
Pueblo, CO 81001
United States
7195492416 (Phone)
7195492705 (Fax)

HOME PAGE: http://chass.csupueblo.edu/Sociology/Faculty/Pages/TimothyMcGettigan.aspx

Do you have negative results from your research you’d like to share?

Paper statistics

Downloads
32
Abstract Views
381
PlumX Metrics