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Conservatives, liberals, and “the negative”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2014

Evan Charney
Evan Charney*
Affiliation:
Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0239. [email protected]://www.duke.edu/~echar/
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Abstract

The authors connect conservatism with aversion to negativity via the tendentious use of the language of threats to characterize conservatism, but not liberalism. Their reliance upon an objective conception of the negative ignores the fact that much of the disagreement between liberals and conservatives is over whether or not one and the same state of affairs is negative or positive.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , June 2014 , pp. 310 - 311
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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