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Anxious Politics argues that political anxiety affects the news we consume, who we trust, and what public policies we support.
Author : Bethany Albertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107081483
Anxious Politics argues that political anxiety affects the news we consume, who we trust, and what public policies we support.
Author : Nathaniel Persily
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 32,59 MB
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108835554
A state-of-the-art account of what we know and do not know about the effects of digital technology on democracy.
Author : Bethany Albertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316416216
Emotions matter in politics - enthusiastic supporters return politicians to office, angry citizens march in the streets, a fearful public demands protection from the government. Anxious Politics explores the emotional life of politics, with particular emphasis on how political anxieties affect public life. When the world is scary, when politics is passionate, when the citizenry is anxious, does this politics resemble politics under more serene conditions? If politicians use threatening appeals to persuade citizens, how does the public respond? Anxious Politics argues that political anxiety triggers engagement in politics in ways that are potentially both promising and damaging for democracy. Using four substantive policy areas (public health, immigration, terrorism, and climate change), the book seeks to demonstrate that anxiety affects how we consume political news, who we trust, and what politics we support. Anxiety about politics triggers coping strategies in the political world, where these strategies are often shaped by partisan agendas.
Author : Mario Feit
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0739149881
Democratic Anxieties: Same-Sex Marriage, Death, and Citizenship takes contemporary opposition to same-sex marriage as a starting point to consider anxieties about sex and death within conceptions of democratic citizenship. It pursues a less anxious democratic citizenship in creative readings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hannah Arendt, and Friedrich Nietzsche, and demonstrates how developing an appreciation of mortality is essential to the continued pluralization of democracy.
Author : W. Lance Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,87 MB
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108843050
This book shows how disinformation spread by partisan organizations and media platforms undermines institutional legitimacy on which authoritative information depends.
Author : Danielle Allen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226014681
"Don't talk to strangers" is the advice long given to children by parents of all classes and races. Today it has blossomed into a fundamental precept of civic education, reflecting interracial distrust, personal and political alienation, and a profound suspicion of others. In this powerful and eloquent essay, Danielle Allen, a 2002 MacArthur Fellow, takes this maxim back to Little Rock, rooting out the seeds of distrust to replace them with "a citizenship of political friendship." Returning to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 and to the famous photograph of Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, being cursed by fellow "citizen" Hazel Bryan, Allen argues that we have yet to complete the transition to political friendship that this moment offered. By combining brief readings of philosophers and political theorists with personal reflections on race politics in Chicago, Allen proposes strikingly practical techniques of citizenship. These tools of political friendship, Allen contends, can help us become more trustworthy to others and overcome the fossilized distrust among us. Sacrifice is the key concept that bridges citizenship and trust, according to Allen. She uncovers the ordinary, daily sacrifices citizens make to keep democracy working—and offers methods for recognizing and reciprocating those sacrifices. Trenchant, incisive, and ultimately hopeful, Talking to Strangers is nothing less than a manifesto for a revitalized democratic citizenry.
Author : Frances E. Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108754260
Can America Govern Itself? brings together a diverse group of distinguished scholars to analyze how rising party polarization and economic inequality have affected the performance of American governing institutions. It is organized around two themes: the changing nature of representation in the United States; and how changes in the political environment have affected the internal processes of institutions, overall government performance, and policy outcomes. The chapters in this volume analyze concerns about power, influence and representation in American politics, the quality of deliberation and political communications, the management and implementation of public policy, and the performance of an eighteenth century constitution in today's polarized political environment. These renowned scholars provide a deeper and more systematic grasp of what is new, and what is perennial in challenges to democracy at a fraught moment.
Author : Frances McCall Rosenbluth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1108840205
As stable political alliances in democracies have dissolved, populism deepens social and economic divisions rather than addressing economic insecurity.
Author : George E. Marcus
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271045986
An Analysis Of How emotion functions cooperatively with reason & contributes to a healthy democratic politics.
Author : Brett Gary
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 18,9 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231113656
Today few political analysts use the term "propaganda." However, in the wake of World War I, fear of propaganda haunted the liberal conscience. Citizens and critics blamed the war on campaigns of mass manipulation engaged in by all belligerents. Beginning with these "propaganda anxieties," Brett Gary traces the history of American fears of and attempts to combat propaganda through World War II and up to the Cold War. The Nervous Liberals explores how following World War I the social sciences--especially political science and the new field of mass communications--identified propaganda as the object of urgent "scientific" study. From there his narrative moves to the eve of WWII as mainstream journalists, clerics, and activists demanded greater government action against fascist propaganda, in response to which Congress and the Justice Department sought to create a prophylaxis against foreign or antidemocratic communications. Finally, Gary explores how free speech liberalism was further challenged by the national security culture, whose mobilization before World War II to fight the propaganda threat lead to much of the Cold War anxiety about propaganda. Gary's account sheds considerable light not only on the history of propaganda, but also on the central dilemmas of liberalism in the first half of the century--the delicate balance between protecting national security and protecting civil liberties, including freedom of speech; the tension between public-centered versus expert-centered theories of democracy; and the conflict between social reform and public opinion control as the legitimate aim of social knowledge.