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Rude Democracy: Civility and Incivility in American Politics
Susan Herbst
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Description for Rude Democracy: Civility and Incivility in American Politics
Hardback. How American politics can become more civil and amenable to public policy solutions, while still allowing for effective argument Num Pages: 216 pages, 32 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHV; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 534. Weight in Grams: 381.
Winner of the Doris Graber Award, American Political Science Association, 2013
Democracy is, by its very nature, often rude. But there are limits to how uncivil we should be. In the 2010 edition of Rude Democracy, Susan Herbst explored the ways we discuss public policy, how we treat each other as we do, and how we can create a more civil national culture. She used the examples of Sarah Palin and Barack Obama to illustrate her case. She also examined how young people come to form their own attitudes about civility and political argument. In a new preface for this 2020 paperback edition, the author connects her book to our current highly contentious politics and what it means for the future of democratic argument.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439903353
SKU
V9781439903353
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About Susan Herbst
Susan Herbst is Professor of Political Science and President Emeritus at the University of Connecticut. She is author of many books and articles on American politics including Numbered Voices: How Opinion Polling Has Shaped American Politics, Politics at the Margin: Historical Studies of Public Expression outside the Mainstream and Reading Public Opinion: How Political Actors View the Democratic Process. Previously, she was Chief Academic Officer for the University System of Georgia, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University, and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University.
Reviews for Rude Democracy: Civility and Incivility in American Politics
"In this thought-provoking text, Susan Herbst tackles the role of civility in public discourse.... Throughout Rude Democracy, Herbst identifies potential empirical research topics and unmet scholarly needs into which a new generation of scholars can profitably delve." —Perspectives on Politics "Herbst’s contention that incivility and civility should be viewed as strategic assets is potentially game changing and a contribution that all future scholarly work on incivility cannot ignore." —Journal of Politics "[A] valuable, fair-minded book. It is a contribution to the literature of history, ethics, and public affairs, and it could easily be used to stimulate lively classroom conversations—the kind that spill into the halls when the hour has ended." —Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly