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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Introduction. American Idle: Politics and Popular Culture
Part 1. Setting the Stage: American Political Thought, Beliefs, and Culture
1. Aye on Springfield: Reasons to Vote “Yes” on Popular Culture
2. R For Revolution: Hobbes and Locke on Social Contracts and Scarlet Carsons
3. Political Culture and Public Opinion: The American Dream on Springfield's Evergreen Terrace
Part 2. Cast and Crew: Actors and Institutions in American Government and Politics
4. Congress, Corruption, and Political Culture: Mr. Bulworth Goes to Washington
5. The President as Hero: Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Bartlet
6. Seeking Justice in America's Two-Tiered Legal System: “I Plead the Fif”
7. Madisonian Pluralism and Interest Group Politics: Inhaling Democracy, Choking on Elitism
8. Entertainment Media and Political Knowledge: Do People Get Any Truth out of Truthiness?
9. Broadcast News and the Movies: Wagging Somebody's Dog
Part 3. Lights, Camera, Politics: Contemporary Issues in American Government
10. Torture, Terrorism, and 24: What Would Jack Bauer Do?
11. Civil Liberties v. Law and Order: Exploring Responses to Terrorism in The Siege
12. Influencing American Foreign Policy through Popular Music: All the World's a Stage
13. Twentieth-Century American Folk Music and the Popularization of Protest: Three Chords and the Truth
14. Reevaluating Democracy in America: Profound Disappointment, Profound Hope
Contributors
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