Patricia Roberts-Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 1068517 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Roberts-Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts-Miller |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS-MILLER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Battle of Ap Bac and the Wicked Problems of the Vietnam War
The Vietnam War has become a textbook example of a wicked problem, for good reason. The internal administration deliberations about the conflict have also become a textbook example of poor decision-making processes. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and other civilian decision makers were committed to largely negative ends: a noncommunist South Vietnam achieved without the conflict becoming a risky political controversy. Cold War demagoguery m…
Demagogues in American Politics by Charles U. Zug
The rise of authoritarian and charismatic populists has given rise to interdisciplinary interest in the vexed topic of demagogues—a term that has long had multiple definitions. Initially, it was a neutral term, meaning someone who was a leader of the Athenian non-elite (the demes). For classical authors like Aristophanes or Thucydides, a demagogue might be good (Pericles) or bad (Cleon). In Rhetoric, Aristotle seems to characterize a demagogue by…
The Mask of War and the War of Masks
In the US, mask wearing, while opposed and evaded by people all over the political spectrum (albeit not equally), was disproportionately associated with reactionary political affiliation, especially in its most demagogic and violent forms. Anti-mask demagoguery associated mask wearing and mask mandates with communism, Nazism, satanism, genocide, suicide and a war on America. This article argues that this demagoguery was not unique to masks or COV…
Demagoguery and democracy
135 pages ; 17 cm
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Demagoguery and democracy
135 pages ; 17 cm
The Mask of War and the War of Masks
In the US, mask wearing, while opposed and evaded by people all over the political spectrum (albeit not equally), was disproportionately associated with reactionary political affiliation, especially in its most demagogic and violent forms. Anti-mask demagoguery associated mask wearing and mask mandates with communism, Nazism, satanism, genocide, suicide and a war on America. This article argues that this demagoguery was not unique to masks or COV…
Demagogues in American Politics by Charles U. Zug
The rise of authoritarian and charismatic populists has given rise to interdisciplinary interest in the vexed topic of demagogues—a term that has long had multiple definitions. Initially, it was a neutral term, meaning someone who was a leader of the Athenian non-elite (the demes). For classical authors like Aristophanes or Thucydides, a demagogue might be good (Pericles) or bad (Cleon). In Rhetoric, Aristotle seems to characterize a demagogue by…
The Battle of Ap Bac and the Wicked Problems of the Vietnam War
The Vietnam War has become a textbook example of a wicked problem, for good reason. The internal administration deliberations about the conflict have also become a textbook example of poor decision-making processes. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and other civilian decision makers were committed to largely negative ends: a noncommunist South Vietnam achieved without the conflict becoming a risky political controversy. Cold War demagoguery m…
Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Spanish Civil War (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · American Political and Social Dynamics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Battle (1 work) · Communism (1 work)