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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785284603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-136-99445-9

1-136-99446-7

1-282-78208-8

9786612782084

0-203-85499-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Le CheminantWayne

ParrishJohn M

Disciplina

320.01/9

Soggetti

Manipulative behavior - Political aspects

Political psychology

Mass media - Political aspects

Democracy - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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