Imagining Politics: Interpretations in Political Science and Political Television (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780472074242)

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.

Author: Stephen Benedict Dyson
ISBN-10: 0472074245
ISBN-13: 9780472074242
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Language: English
Published: 07/09/2019
Pages: 162
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2020