Manipulating democracy
Subtitle: democratic theory, political psychology, and mass media
By: [edited by] Wayne Le Cheminant and John Parrish.
Contributors: Le Cheminant, Wayne.; Parrish, John M.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780415878043; 9780415878050; 9780203854990
Subjects: Manipulative behavior -- Political aspects; Political psychology; Mass media -- Political aspects; Democracy -- Psychological aspects
Description: From the publisher. 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.
Notes: Includes index.