Imagining Politics

Imagining Politics
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 163
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ISBN-10 : 9780472125883
ISBN-13 : 0472125885
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Book Synopsis Imagining Politics by : Stephen Benedict Dyson

Download or read book Imagining Politics written by Stephen Benedict Dyson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 The West Wing, House of Cards, Borgen, Black Mirror, and Scandal to challenge the assumptions that construct the discipline of political science itself. Imagining Politics 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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