The American Political Scandal : Free Speech, Public Discourse, and Democracy 9781442242920, 9781442242913

Imagining the American Polity: Political Science and the Discourse of Democracy 9780271031903

Americans have long prided themselves on living in a country that serves as a beacon of democracy to the world, but from

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Free Speech Isn’t Free

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The City and Sex : Private Vice and Public Scandal in the American Republic 9781498518291, 9781498518284

The City and Sex examines American political sex scandals at the national level. Studying these events over time with an

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American Business and Political Power: Public Opinion, Elections, and Democracy 9780226764658

Most people believe that large corporations wield enormous political power when they lobby for policies as a cohesive bl

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Free Speech and Censorship 9781440865398

The United States' collective understanding of First Amendment freedoms was formed by more than 200 years of te

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Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstitution of American Democracy 9781501723995

What does it mean to be a citizen in a democracy? This question is addressed here by thirteen historians, classicists, a

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The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion 9780226818900

A thought-provoking history of communications that challenges ideas about freedom of speech and democracy. At the heart

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Trotskyists on Trial: Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR 9781479891627

Passed in June 1940, the Smith Act was a peacetime anti-sedition law that marked a dramatic shift in the legal definitio

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Presidents and Political Scandal: Managing Scandal in the Modern Era [1st ed.] 9783030455033, 9783030455040

This book explores presidential power through an analysis of the ways that U.S. presidents attempt to manage scandals. W

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Free Speech and Human Dignity 9780300148220

Debates over hate speech, pornography, and other sorts of controversial speech raise issues that go to the core of the F

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