Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television: How Americans Challenged the Media and Seized Political Initiative during the Iran-Contra Debate - Softcover

Thelen, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226794717 ISBN 13: 9780226794716

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1996

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Book by Thelen David

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This text presents an original argument about the nature of democracy in American society. It explores a political process it claims is out of touch with everyday needs and concerns of American citizens. Instead of focusing on polls and election results, David Thelen looks at Americans through their calls and letters to congressmen in which citizens define for themselves the issues they want to raise and the ways they want to be seen and heard. Thelen argues that the self-referential world of politics and journalism during elections excludes the concerns and voices of Americans, resulting in lower voter turnouts and increased voter apathy.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0226794717
• ISBN 13: 9780226794716
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258