The Politics of Common Sense: How Social Movements Use Public Discourse to Change Politics and Win Acceptance - Brossura

Woodly, Deva R.

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ISBN 10: 0190203994 ISBN 13: 9780190203993

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 2015

Riassunto

The way that movements communicate with the general public matters for their chances of lasting success. Devo Woodly argue that the potential for movement-led political change is significantly rooted in mainstream democratic discourse and specifically in the political acceptance of new issues by news media, the general public, and elected officials. This is true to some extent for any group wishing to alter status quo distributions of rights and/or resources, but is especially important for grassroots challengers who do not already have a place of legitimated influence in the polity. By examining the talk of two contemporary movements, the living wage and marriage equality, during the critical decade after their emergence between 1994-2004, Woodly shows that while the living wage movement experienced over 120 policy victories and the marriage equality movement suffered many policy defeats, the overall impact that marriage equality had on changing American politics was much greater than that of the living wage because of its deliberate effort to change mainstream political discourse, and thus, the public understanding of the politics surrounding the issue.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Deva R. Woodly is Assistant Professor of Political Science, The New School

Contenuti:

• Introduction: The Discursive Power of Movements
• Chapter One: Mainstream Discourse, Public Meaning, and the Political Character of Persuasion
• Chapter Two: A Tale of Two Movements- Living Wage
• Chapter Three: A Tale of Two Movements- Marriage Equality
• Chapter Four: The Discursive Architecture of Resonance
• Chapter Five: Political Acceptance and the Process of Political Change
• Chapter Six: From Marginal to Mainstream
• Conclusion: After Acceptance - the Tea Party, Occupy & Prospects for political transformation
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Bibliography

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0190203994
• ISBN 13: 9780190203993
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272