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The Neopopular Bubble: Speculating on the People in Late Modern Democracy
Peter Csigo
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Hardcover. The common critique of media- and ratings-driven politics envisions democracy falling hostage to a popularity contest. By contrast, the following book reconceives politics as a speculative Keynesian beauty contest that alienates itself from the popular audience it ceaselessly targets. Num Pages: 426 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; JPH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
The common critique of media- and ratings-driven politics envisions democracy falling hostage to a popularity contest. By contrast, the following book reconceives politics as a speculative Keynesian beauty contest that alienates itself from the popular audience it ceaselessly targets. Political actors unknowingly lean on collective beliefs about the popular expectations they seek to gratify, and thus do not follow popular public opinion as it is, but popular public opinion about popular public opinion. This book unravels how collective discourses on the popular have taken the role of intermediary between political elites and electorates. The shift has been driven ... Read more
The common critique of media- and ratings-driven politics envisions democracy falling hostage to a popularity contest. By contrast, the following book reconceives politics as a speculative Keynesian beauty contest that alienates itself from the popular audience it ceaselessly targets. Political actors unknowingly lean on collective beliefs about the popular expectations they seek to gratify, and thus do not follow popular public opinion as it is, but popular public opinion about popular public opinion. This book unravels how collective discourses on the popular have taken the role of intermediary between political elites and electorates. The shift has been driven ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Central European Univ Pr
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
426
Place of Publication
Budapest, Hungary
ISBN
9789633861677
SKU
V9789633861677
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About Peter Csigo
Peter Csigo is a Hungarian sociologist researching collective speculation at the fields of popular media and democratic politics
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