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Star Power - American Democracy in the Age of the Celebrity Candidate (Hardcover)
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Star Power - American Democracy in the Age of the Celebrity Candidate (Hardcover)
Series: Media and Power
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Are celebrity politics the spice of American public life or a pox
on policy progress? This book identifies and measures the
attributes of celebrities that make them well-equipped to win
campaigns and yet poorly prepared to govern effectively. The
framers of the U.S. Constitution worried about the propensity of an
undereducated public to elect unqualified entertainers rather than
fit characters to government positions. Celebrities have come to
play an increasingly central role in the American political process
as fundraisers, surrogates, and as candidates themselves, yet
remain a sorely understudied topic in political science. Through a
multimethod approach that includes qualitative analysis, novel
public opinion surveys, and survey experiments, this book assesses
whether Americans are more likely to vote for celebrities than
well-known traditional politicians and the implications of these
preferences for democracy in the U.S. Perfect for students,
scholars, and interested citizens, Star Power looks at the
contemporary American political landscape through new lenses of
research as well as popular appeal.
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