Politics, Discourse, and American Society - New Agendas

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Roderick P. Hart and Bartholomew Sparrow - Contributions by Vanessa Beasley; David Crockett; Jill Edy; Jeffrey P. Jones; Regina Lawrence; Lisbeth Lipari; Shawn Parry-Giles; Amy Pool; David Ryfe; J H. Snider; Bartholomew Sparrow and Paul Waldman Klappentext In Politics, Discourse, and American Society, some of the nation's best young scholars take us beyond conventional perspectives to present original work on how politics is transacted in American society and how public communication affects those transactions. They also lay out directions for future research, thereby putting fresh ideas on the scholarly agenda. The authors ask whether the American president is genuinely powerful, if lawsuits have become a way of changing the nation's politics, whether public opinion polling is really objective, and whether politics can still be distinguished from pop culture. Zusammenfassung What is the purpose of talk in a democratic society? Do the American people interact with their government in distinctive ways? In this text! contributors present work on how politics is transacted in American society and how public communication affects those transactions.

Product details

• Authors: Roderick P. Hart, Roderick P. Sparrow Hart
• Assisted by: Roderick P Hart (Editor), Roderick P. Hart (Editor), Bartholemew Sparrow (Editor), Bartholomew Sparrow (Editor), Bartholomew H. Sparrow (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.08.2001
• EAN: 9780742500716
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-0071-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education