Discourse and Democracy Critical Analysis of the Language of Government 1st Edition by Michael Farrelly 1317694984 9781317694984

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ISBN 10:  1317694984 

ISBN 13: 9781317694984

Author:   Michael Farrelly 

In this new study, Farrelly gives a critical examination of democracy as it is conceived and practiced in contemporary advanced liberal nations. The received wisdom on democracy is probelmatized through a close analysis of discourse in combination with critical theories of democracy and of the State. The central theme of the book is the paradox of pervasive reference to democracy as a legitimation of political action by liberal governments versus the converse weakening of actual democratic practice within the liberal world. Farrelly builds on the work of Fairclough and others to examine this paradox, developing a new critical concept of “democratism” as an ideology that undermines the possibility of a more genuine democracy through political actors who oversimplify the idea of democracy. The book includes critical analyses of key political texts taken from presidential and prime ministerial speeches from the US and UK that attach democracy to non-democratic practices.

Discourse and Democracy Critical Analysis of the Language of Government 1st Table of contents:

1 The Paradox of Contemporary Democracy
2 Representing Which Democracy?
3 Analysing Democracy in Texts
4 Representing Democracy in National Practices of Government Politics
5 Representing Democracy and Enacting Forums in City Practices of Government
6 Ideology and Democracy

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