Media coverage of presidential actions can not only serve journalistic purposes, but can also act as a check against unilateral decision making. The book seeks to uncover how the news media has worked to curtail overreaching power within the executive branch, demonstrating how the fourth estate keeps presidential overreach at bay.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Mark Major
EAN: 9781137393067
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 3648 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-07-17
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GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
United States of America, USA, Media studies, Political leaders and leadership
Mark Major is the Associate Director of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy and Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is the editor of Where Do We Go from Here? American Democracy and the Renewal of the Radical Imagination.
