基本説明
Are the nation's mass media helpful or harmful to the democratic experience?
Full Description
What is the purpose of public talk in a democratic society? Do the American people interact with their government in distinctive ways? Are the nation's mass media helpful or harmful to the democratic experience? 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.
Contents
Chapter 1 Tocqueville and Political Communication in America Part 2 Part I: Presidential Discourse in a Complex Nation Chapter 3 Identity, Democracy, and Presidential Rhetoric Chapter 4 Prometheus Chained: Communication and the Constraints of History Part 5 Part II: National Beliefs and Political Identity Chapter 6 Using the Past in Political Discourse Chapter 7 Rights Talk As Political Communication Part 8 Part III: The Mass Media and Lay Understanding Chapter 9 Meaningful Events: Problem Definition in the Media Arena Chapter 10 The Paradox of News Bias: How Local Broadcasters Influence Information Policy Part 11 Part IV: Enlarging the Public Sphere Chapter 12 Voice, Polling, and the Public Sphere Chapter 13 Deliberation in Practice: Connecting Theory to the Lives of Citizens Part 14 Part V: Popular Venues, Popular Politics Chapter 15 Presidential Communication As Cultural Form: The Town Hall Meeting Chapter 16 Forums for Citizenship in Popular Culture Chapter 17 Political Authenticity, Television News, and Hillary Rodham Clinton
