Dirty politics: deception, distraction, and democracy Jamieson, Kathleen Hall

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Jamieson, Kathleen Hall

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Oxford University Press 1992Description: x, 335 pISBN:

9780195085532

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DDC classification:

659.1932 J2D4

Summary: Americans in recent years have become thoroughly disenchanted with our political campaigns, especially with campaign advertising and speeches. Each year, as November approaches, we are bombarded with visceral appeals that bypass substance, that drape candidates in the American flag but tell us nothing about what they'll do if elected, that flood us with images of PT-109 or Willie Horton, while significant issues - such as Kennedy's Addison's Disease or the looming S&L catastrophe - are left unexamined. And the press--the supposed safeguard of democracy - focuses on campaign strategy over campaign substance, leaving us to decide where the truth lies. (http://www.oup.com)

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Americans in recent years have become thoroughly disenchanted with our political campaigns, especially with campaign advertising and speeches. Each year, as November approaches, we are bombarded with visceral appeals that bypass substance, that drape candidates in the American flag but tell us nothing about what they'll do if elected, that flood us with images of PT-109 or Willie Horton, while significant issues - such as Kennedy's Addison's Disease or the looming S&L catastrophe - are left unexamined. And the press--the supposed safeguard of democracy - focuses on campaign strategy over campaign substance, leaving us to decide where the truth lies. (http://www.oup.com)

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