Constructing the Political Spectacle

Name: Constructing the Political Spectacle
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ISBN: 9780226183992

ISBN-10: 0226183998

ISBN-13: 9780226183992

Edition: 1988

Authors: Murray Edelman

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Thanks to the ready availability of political news today, informed citizens can protect and promote their own interests and the public interest more effectively. Or can they? Murray Edelman argues against this conventional interpretation of politics, one that takes for granted that we live in a world of facts and that people react rationally to the facts they know. In doing so, he explores in detail the ways in which the conspicuous aspects of the political scene are interpretations that systematically buttress established inequalities and interpretations already dominant political ideologies.

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/15/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 142
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.46" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Some Premises about Politics



The Construction and Uses of Social Problems



The Construction and Uses of Political Leaders



The Construction and Uses of Political Enemies



The Ambiguities of Political News



Political Language and Political Reality



The Political Spectacle as Tactic and as Mystification


Index