Patricia Roberts-Miller

Demagoguery and Democracy (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A clear-eyed guide to demagogueryand how we can defeat it

What is demagoguery? Some demagogues are easy to spot: They rise to power through pandering, charisma, and prejudice. But, as professor Patricia Roberts-Miller explains, a demagogue is anyone who reduces all questions to us vs. them.

Why is it dangerous? Demagoguery is democracy's greatest threat. It erodes rational debate, so that intelligent policymaking grinds to a halt. The idea that we never fall for itthat all the blame lies with themis equally dangerous.

How can we stop it? Demagogues follow predictable patterns in what they say and do to gain power. The key to resisting demagoguery is to name it when you see itand to know where it leads.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Experiment
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781615194193
• Artikelnr.: 48396013

Autorenporträt

Patricia Roberts-Miller, PhD, is professor emeritus of rhetoric and writing, and the former director of the University Writing Center at University of Texas at Austin. She has been teaching the subject of demagoguery since 2002, and is the author of Demagoguery and Democracy, Speaking of Race, Voices in the Wilderness, Deliberate Conflict, Fanatical Schemes, and Rhetoric and Demagoguery. She lives in Texas.