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Iranian scholar Ramin Jahanbegloo interviews one of the leading political thinkers our time, Bhikhu Parekh, and in the process addresses issues ranging from cultural diversity, religion, and global ethics to identity politics, liberal democracy, Islam and Europe, and Gandhi's role as a political thinker and social reformer.

Introduction: The politics of news in a democracy / Doris Graber, Denis McQuail, and Pippa Norris -- Political roles of the journalist / Thomas E. Patterson -- Icon-anchors and Russian television viewers / Ellen Mickiewicz -- Guidelines for journalism professionals : a broadcast journalist's views / Jim Lehrer -- Government news management : institutional approaches and strategies in three western democracies reconsidered / Barbara Pfetsch -- Strategic communication as a third force in news making / Jarol B. Manheim -- Unmasking deception : the capacity, disposition, and challenges facing the press / Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Bruce W. Hardy -- Advertising and citizen voting behavior / Darrell M. West -- Free falls, high dives, and the future of democratic accountability / Scott L. Althaus -- But what do the polls show? / Andrew Kohut -- The challenges of public functions and commercialized media / Robert Picard -- Globalization and the new media / W. Russell Neuman -- Press freedom and democratic accountability in a time of war, commercialism, and the Internet / W. Lance Bennett and Regina G. Lawrence -- Conclusion: Journalism and democracy : contemporary challenges / Denis McQuail, Doris Graber, and Pippa Norris

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Radical Notion -- From Philadelphia to Seneca Falls -- From The Voting Booth To The Ballot -- A Long Way, Baby -- Chapter 2: Why Not Run? -- Not The Family -- The Structure of Politics -- You Go First -- Chapter 3: When Women Run -- Twice As Good -- Look At That Face -- Implicit Bias -- Chapter 4: Critical Mass -- Pizza and Compromise -- Getting Down to Work -- What's With Rwanda? -- Banking On A Woman Leader -- Chapter 5: Women Belong In The House…And In The Senate (But How Do We Get Them There?) -- Quotas -- Train 'Em Up -- But I Mean, Like Yuck -- Glossary -- For More Information -- Websites -- For Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index -- About The Author -- Photo Credits -- Back Cover

Much recent political thought has been devoted to the proposition that neither political endeavor properly understood nor theorizing about such endeavor is or could ever be a kind of rational activity. I examine three broad approaches that celebrate, respectively, rhetorical practices of political persuasion, agonistic conceptions of democracy, and, more generally, a kind of hard-headed critical realism rooted in the plain facts of political life. I argue that criticisms of rationalism in politics associated with these approaches systematically ignore central tenets of what might be called a post-Kantian convergence of recent and important philosophical perspectives and that such perspectives can be enormously useful in addressing and critically evaluating the underlying intellectual structures of political life.

Revised and translated from Politische Vierteljahresschrift, special issue no. 1, 1969.