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.

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• Con la collaborazione di: Sparrow Bartholomew (Editore), Hart Roderick P. (Editore), Roderick P Hart (Editore), Bartholomew Sparrow (Editore), Roderick P. Hart (Editore), Bartholemew Sparrow (Editore), Bartholomew H. Sparrow (Editore)
• Autori: Roderick P. Sparrow Hart, Roderick P. Hart
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 13.08.2001
• Categoria: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Società; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva
• EAN: 9780742500716
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-0071-6
• Numero di pagine: 280
• Categorie: USA, Media Studies, Social Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Political science & theory, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory