How propaganda works
By: Stanley, Jason
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BookPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2015.Description: xx, 353 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780691164427Subject(s): Propaganda | Propaganda -- History | Mass media and propaganda | PropagandaDDC classification: 303.375 Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 303.3720973 KL RA Race and social change : | 303.375 BE PR Propaganda | 303.375 JO PR Propaganda & persuasion / | 303.375 ST HO How propaganda works | 303.3760994 MO CE The censor's library / | 303.38 OS AT Attitudes and opinions / | 303.3809174927 ZO AR Arab voices : |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-345) and index.
Propaganda in the history of political thought -- Propaganda defined -- Propaganda in liberal democracy -- Language as a mechanism of control -- Ideology -- Political ideologies -- The ideology of elites: a case study.
Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us--not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies of the mid-twentieth century. In How Propaganda Works, Jason Stanley demonstrates that more attention needs to be paid. He examines how propaganda operates subtly, how it undermines democracy--particularly the ideals of democratic deliberation and equality--and how it has damaged democracies of the past.