Imagining politics : interpretations in political science and political television /

Imagining politics : interpretations in political science and political television /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Dyson, Stephen Benedict, author.
Imprint:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	1 online resource (151 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Trump, Donald, -- 1946- Trump, Donald, -- 1946- European Union -- Great Britain. European Union. Political culture. Politics on television. Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2016. Political culture. Politics on television. Presidents -- Election. Great Britain. United States.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12681483

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ISBN:	9780472125883 0472125885 9780472074242 9780472054244
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 19, 2019).
Summary:	Imagining Politics is an interrogation of two interpretations of government. The first, coming from popular culture fictions about politics, the second coming from academic theories about government, particularly the assumptions of mainstream U.S. political science. Stephen Benedict Dyson argues that fictions and theories both function as attempts at meaning making -- making sensible the otherwise insensible realm of political behavior. By taking fiction seriously, and by arguing that political science theory is homologous to fictions, the book offers a radical new perspective on both. The specialist is challenged to think anew not just about fictions such as The West Wing, House of Cards, Borgen, Black Mirror, and Scandal, but about the assumptions that construct the discipline of political science itself. It is also about our political moment. The two populist shocks of our time -- Brexit and the election of Trump -- are set in a new context here as we trace the development of an image of politics as an insider game through fictions and academic theory, and look at how Brexit and Trump took on that image, and won.
Other form:	Print version: Dyson, Stephen Benedict. Imagining politics. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2019] 9780472074242
Standard no.:	10.3998/mpub.10191802

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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (151 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780472125883 0472125885 9780472074242 9780472054244