Political Constructions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Constructions write by Carol Kay. This book was released on 2019-05-15. Political Constructions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focussing on three major eighteenth-century English novelists, Carol Kay explores the connections between institutional politics, political philosophy, and fiction. Drawing from Hobbes's Leviathan a political "problematic," a complex of interconnected topics, Kay offers an alternative to current critical theories that overlook the importance of political institutions in literary analysis. She considers Hobbes's though a key to what has been called the growth of political stability in England during this period, a consolidation of national authority which was brutal in some respects and a matter of intense controversy. Political Constructions shows how the fictional creations of Defoe, Richardson, and Sterne challenge but ultimately support Hobbes's diagnosis of a fundamental human ignorance and competition which require the political solution of consent to authority. Although they testified to the potential for social conflict, Kay concludes, the works of novelists and philosophers helped make England the prototype of the settled state, the country that did not have a modern revolution.
Constructing the Political Spectacle
Constructing the Political Spectacle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constructing the Political Spectacle write by Murray Jacob Edelman. This book was released on 1988. Constructing the Political Spectacle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Political Construction of Business Interests
The Political Construction of Business Interests - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Political Construction of Business Interests write by Cathie Jo Martin. This book was released on 2012-03-30. The Political Construction of Business Interests available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Political Construction of Business Interests recounts employers' struggles to define their collective social identities at turning points in capitalist development.
Common Knowledge
Common Knowledge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Common Knowledge write by W. Russell Neuman. This book was released on 1992-10-15. Common Knowledge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Photo opportunities, ten-second sound bites, talking heads and celebrity anchors: so the world is explained daily to millions of Americans. The result, according to the experts, is an ignorant public, helpless targets of a one-way flow of carefully filtered and orchestrated communication. Common Knowledge shatters this pervasive myth. Reporting on a ground-breaking study, the authors reveal that our shared knowledge and evolving political beliefs are determined largely by how we actively reinterpret the images, fragments, and signals we find in the mass media. For their study, the authors analyzed coverage of 150 television and newspaper stories on five prominent issues—drugs, AIDS, South African apartheid, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the stock market crash of October 1987. They tested audience responses of more than 1,600 people, and conducted in-depth interviews with a select sample. What emerges is a surprisingly complex picture of people actively and critically interpreting the news, making sense of even the most abstract issues in terms of their own lives, and finding political meaning in a sophisticated interplay of message, medium, and firsthand experience. At every turn, Common Knowledge refutes conventional wisdom. It shows that television is far more effective at raising the saliency of issues and promoting learning than is generally assumed; it also undermines the assumed causal connection between newspaper reading and higher levels of political knowledge. Finally, this book gives a deeply responsible and thoroughly fascinating account of how the news is conveyed to us, and how we in turn convey it to others, making meaning of at once so much and so little. For anyone who makes the news—or tries to make anything of it—Common Knowledge promises uncommon wisdom.
The Political Construction of Brazil
The Political Construction of Brazil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Political Construction of Brazil write by Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira. This book was released on 2017. The Political Construction of Brazil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A big and bold book by a leading Brazilian public intellectual and scholar-practitioner. Whether or not one agrees with his conclusions, Bresser-Pereira reaches deep into the history of the turbulent twentieth century to set the terms for a new debate on Brazil¿s development in the twenty-first. --Matthew Taylor, American University Spanning the period from the country¿s independence in 1822 through early 2015, Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira assesses the trajectory of Brazil¿s political, social, and economic development. Bresser-Pereira draws on his decades of first-hand experience to shed light on the many paradoxes that have characterized Brazil¿s polity, its society, and the relations between the two across nearly two centuries. Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira is professor emeritus of politics and economics at the Getulio Vargas Foundation. In addition to his long academic career, he has served as Brazil¿s minister of finance, minister of federal administration and state reform, and minister of science and technology, and also as secretary of the government of the state of São Paulo.
