Manipulating democracy

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.

subjects: Political psychology,  Mass media,  Democracy,  Psychological aspects,  Political aspects,  Manipulative behavior,  Human behavior,  Mass media, political aspects,  Manipulation (Psychologie),  Aspect politique,  Psychologie politique,  POLITICAL SCIENCE,  Political Ideologies,  Demokratie