In Defense of Pluralism - Policy Disagreement and Its Media Coverage

Informationen zum Autor Éric Montpetit is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the Université de Montréal. He is the author of Misplaced Distrust: Policy Networks and the Environment in France, the United States and Canada, which won the American Political Science Association's Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize for the best book on environmental politics and policy in 2006. He has published work in the Policy Studies Journal, Comparative Political Studies, Environmental Politics, Policy Sciences, Governance, the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of Public Policy, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Public Administration, World Politics and Political Studies. Klappentext Providing an empirically grounded perspective on policy disagreements, Éric Montpetit highlights significant distortions in the media coverage of policy-making. Zusammenfassung Providing an empirically grounded perspective on policy disagreements, Éric Montpetit highlights significant distortions in the media coverage of policy-making. This book will be of interest to policy-making scholars and professionals, as well as to professionals in communication and journalism looking for material to reflect upon in their work. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: shouts, shoes, and insults; 2. Disagreement and tone in the media; 3. Frames, metaphors and disagreement in the media; 4. Measuring disagreement among policy actors; 5. Do contentious actors stall policy?; 6. Who disagrees with whom and why?; 7. Appreciating the pluralist politics of policy-making; Appendix.

Product details

• Authors: ¿Ic Montpetit, Eric Montpetit, Éric Montpetit
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2016
• EAN: 9781316615768
• ISBN: 978-1-316-61576-8
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Political science & theory, Comparative Politics, Political science and theory