In Defense of Pluralism: Policy Disagreement and Its Media Coverage

by Éric Montpetit

Book Overview

The work of early pluralist thinkers, from Arthur Bentley to Robert Dahl, inspired much optimism about democracy. They argued that democracy was functioning well, despite disagreements arising among the diversity of interests represented in policy-making processes. Yet it is unlikely that anyone paying attention to news coverage today would share such optimism. The media portray current policy-making processes as intractably polarized, devoid of any...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316615766
• ISBN13: 9781316615768
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"