Populism, Elitism, and the Populist Ideology of Elites: The Reception of the Work of Murray Edelman
In: Critical review: an interdisciplinary journal of politics and society, Band 17, Heft 3-4, S. 351-366
Abstract
Over the course of his career, Murray Edelman made one of the few sustained attempts by a theoretically inclined political scientist to explore the effects of the public's overwhelming ignorance of politics. In his early work, he focused on political elites' manipulation of an ignorant public through the deployment of symbolism. In his later work, however, he suggested that even elites are the puppets of their ideologies. His early work has been well received; his later work has gone largely unremarked. The reason may have to do with the very thing that Edelman was, in his later work, addressing: the (populist) ideological biases of his politically elite (academic) audience. Tables, References. Adapted from the source document.
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