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9780742500716

Politics, Discourse, and American Society New Agendas

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  • ISBN13:

    9780742500716

  • ISBN10:

    0742500713

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-06-13
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

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. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Roderick P. Hart
Tocqueville and Political Communication in America
1(18)
Bartholomew H. Sparrow
Part 1: Presidential Discourse in a Complex Nation
Identity, Democracy, and Presidential Rhetoric
19(16)
Vanessa B. Beasley
Prometheus Chained: Communication and the Constraints of History
35(18)
David A. Crockett
Part 2: National Beliefs and Political Identity
The Presence of the Past in Public Discourse
53(18)
Jill A. Edy
Rights Talk as a Form of Political Communication
71(20)
Amy Bunger
Part 3: The Mass Media and Lay Understanding
Defining Events: Problem Definition in the Media Arena
91(20)
Regina G. Lawrence
The Paradox of News Bias: How Local Broadcasters Influence Information Policy
111(18)
J. H. Snider
Part 4: Enlarging the Public Sphere
Voice, Polling, and the Public Sphere
129(22)
Lisbeth Lipari
Deliberation in Practice: Connecting Theory to the Lives of Citizens
151(22)
Paul Waldman
Part 5: Popular Venues, Popular Politics
Presidential Communication as Cultural Form: The Town Hall Meeting
173(20)
David Michael Ryfe
Forums for Citizenship in Popular Culture
193(18)
Jeffrey P. Jones
Political Authenticity, Television News, and Hillary Rodham Clinton
211(18)
Shawn J. Parry-Giles
References 229(26)
Index 255(12)
About the Contributors 267

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