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008			210111r20172015nju b 001 0 eng d
020			_a9780691173429 (Paper)
020			_a0691173427 (Paper)
020			_a9780691164427 (Cloth)
020			_a0691164428 (Cloth)
035			_a(OCoLC)1052743198
050			_aHM1231 _b.S73 2017
100	1		_aStanley, Jason.
245	1	0	_aHow propaganda works / _cJason Stanley.
260			_aPrinceton, New Jersey : _bPrinceton University Press, _c2017.
300			_axx, 353 p.
500			_aReprint. Originally published: 2015.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPropaganda 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.
520			_aOur 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. Focusing on the shortcomings of liberal democratic states, Stanley provides a historically grounded introduction to democratic political theory as a window into the misuse of democratic vocabulary for propaganda's selfish purposes. He lays out historical examples, such as the restructuring of the US public school system at the turn of the twentieth century, to explore how the language of democracy is sometimes used to mask an undemocratic reality.
650		4	_aPropaganda.
650		4	_aPropaganda _xHistory.
650		4	_aMass media and propaganda.
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