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Kennedy, Sheila Suess

 
9781626163782: Talking Politics?: What You Need to Know Before Opening Your Mouth
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1626163782 ISBN 13 : 9781626163782
Editeur : Georgetown University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Honest, objective, and informed political debates are all too rare in today's polarized and partisan climate. Public policy is increasingly driven by ideology while political spin, distortions, and even demonizing opponents by disseminating outright lies are routine practice from Washington to the local city council. Super-heated and hyper-partisan rhetoric, increasingly homogeneous political and ideological communities, and the public's spotty knowledge about our political system all undermine informed and considered responses to policy debates.

This book identifies common areas of confusion or misunderstanding about our political system-clarifying many distortions of accepted history, constitutional law, economics, and science--to help readers distinguish documented facts from the different conclusions and interpretations that may be drawn from those facts. Sheila Suess Kennedy aims to create a more informed electorate and to better ground debates in fact, from Capitol Hill to the family dinner table. Talking Politics? What You Need to Know before Opening Your Mouth provides a solid starting point from which Americans can build more persuasive arguments for their preferred policies, whatever they may be, and will interest students of political science, civics, and history, from high school to undergraduates, and the general public interested in politics and informed discussion.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sheila Suess Kennedy is a professor of law and public policy at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and director of the Center for Civic Literacy at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). She is the author of several books, including American Public Services: Constitutional and Ethical Foundations and Distrust American Style.

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Éditeur
Georgetown University Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1626163782
ISBN 13 
9781626163782
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
44
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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