Manipulating democracy : democratic theory, political psychology, and mass media / edited by Wayne Le Cheminant, John M. Parrish.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Le Cheminant, Wayne.

Parrish, John M.

Loyola Marymount University.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manipulative behavior--Political aspects--Congresses.

Manipulative behavior.

Political psychology--Congresses.

Political psychology.

Mass media--Political aspects--Congresses.

Mass media.

Democracy--Psychological aspects--Congresses.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Manipulation is a source of pervasive anxiety in contemporary American politics. Observers charge that manipulative practices in political advertising, media coverage, and public discourse have helped to produce an increasingly polarized political arena, an uninformed and apathetic electorate, election campaigns that exploit public fears and prejudices, a media that titillates rather than educates, and a policy process that too often focuses on the symbolic rather than substantive. Manipulating Democracy offers the first comprehensive dialogue between empirical politi

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction Manipulating Democracy: A Reappraisal; Part I Democratic Theory; 1 Manipulation and Democratic Theory; 2 Manipulation: As Old as Democracy Itself (and Sometimes Dangerous); 3 When Rhetoric Turns Manipulative: Disentangling Persuasion and Manipulation; Part II Political Psychology; 4 Changing Brains: Lessons from the Living Wage Campaign; 5 Emotional Manipulation of Political Identity; 6 Mimesis, Persuasion, and Manipulation in Plato's Republic

Part III Mass Media7 "News You Can't Use": Politics and Democracy in the New Media Environment; 8 The Betrayal of Democracy: The Purpose of Public Opinion Survey Research and its Misuse by Presidents; 9 The Political Economy of Mass Media: Implications for Informed Citizenship; 10 Exploiting the Clueless: Heresthetic, Overload, and Rational Ignorance; Index

Notes:

"Seven of the essays collected here from the 7th annual Dilemmas of Democracy Conference held at Loyola Marymount University on February 9, 2008."-- Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-99445-9

1-136-99446-7

1-282-78208-8

9786612782084

0-203-85499-3

9780203854990

OCLC:

664551702