American Democracy From Tocqueville to Town Halls to Twitter

Name: American Democracy From Tocqueville to Town Halls to Twitter
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ISBN: 9780745662336

ISBN-10: 0745662331

ISBN-13: 9780745662336

Edition: 2014

Authors: Andrew J. Perrin

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In this groundbreaking book, sociologist Andrew Perrin shows that rules and institutions, while important, are not the core of democracy. Instead, as Alexis de Tocqueville showed in the early years of the American republic, democracy is first and foremost a matter of culture: the shared ideas, practices, and technologies that help individuals combine into publics and achieve representation. Reinterpreting democracy as culture reveals the ways the media, public opinion polling, and changing technologies shape democracy and citizenship. As Perrin shows, the founders of the United States produced a social, cultural, and legal environment fertile for democratic development and in the two…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 2/7/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 5.80" wide x 8.20" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English