Product Description: Pluralism at Yale: The Culture of Political Science in America explores the relationship between personal experience and academic theories of American politics. Through a detailed examination of the Yale University Department of Political Science between 1955 and 1970, including interviews with many of the political scientists involved, this book traces the way "pluralism," a predominately optimistic theory of American democracy which the Yale department helped to develop in those years, helped to support the American political regime...read more

Product Description: Representing Black Culture provides an innovative and comprehensive analysis of the role that black culture plays in American race realtions. By analyzing films, literature, popular music, education, television, and governmental cultural policy, Richard M...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An exploration of some of the multiple roles symbolism and language play in political life. The essays extend Edelman's work to encompass contemporary efforts in structuralism, deconstruction, textual analysis, post-structuralism, critical theory and neo-Marxism, providing ample testimony to the central place of language and symbolism on politics...read more

Product Description:     A pathbreaking study of political culture in the United States, Britain, and Canada, Partial Visions demonstrates how popular culture—expressed through television soap operas and comedies, civics and history textbooks, magazine advertisements, and corporate publications and recruitment leaflets—subtly deflects and suppresses democratic political action...read more

Argues that American culture has reached a state that prevents citizens from controlling their social and political identities, and focuses attention on schools, advertising, and television