The Comedy of Democracy

by Jim Combs and Dan D. Nimmo

Book Overview

The notion of society and politics as drama has drawn much attention in recent years. Yet despite the heritage begun by Aristophanes, few students of politics and the social order have taken comedy and comic inquiry seriously. This book revives the Aristophanic notion of democracy as comedy. Herein the reader will find why and how different aspects of American democracy--public opinion, interest groups, the presidency, and so on--are comic. It is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275949796
• ISBN13: 9780275949792
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.6"