Imagining Politics: Interpretations in Political Science and Political Television
Stephen Benedict Dyson, "Imagining Politics: Interpretations in Political Science and Political Television"
English | ISBN: 0472074245 | 2019 | 162 pages | EPUB, PDF | 475 KB + 838 KB
English | ISBN: 0472074245 | 2019 | 162 pages | EPUB, PDF | 475 KB + 838 KB
Imagining Politics critically examines two interpretations of government. The first comes from pop culture fictions about politics, the second from academic political science. Stephen Benedict Dyson argues that televised political fictions and political science theories are attempts at meaning-making, reflecting and shaping how a society thinks about its politics.
By taking fiction seriously, and by arguing that political science theory is homologous to fiction, the book offers a fresh perspective on both, using fictions such as , , , , and to challenge the assumptions that construct the discipline of political science itself.
is also about a political moment in the West. Two great political shocks—Brexit and the election of Donald Trump—are set in a new context here. Dyson traces how Brexit and Trump campaigned against our image of politics as usual, and won.
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