Politics, Discourse and American Society New Agendas |
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| Editor:
| Hart, Roderick P.
Sparrow, Bartholomew |
| Contribution by:
| Sparrow, Bartholomew
Beasley, Vanessa
Crockett, David
Edy, Jill
Jones, Jeffrey P.
Lawrence, Reginald
Waldman, Paul |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7425-0070-9 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2001 |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $165.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionIn 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.