Introduction: manipulating democracy: a reappraisal / Wayne Le Cheminant and John M. Parrish -- Democratic theory. Manipulation and democratic theory / James S. Fishkin -- Manipulation: as old as democracy itself (and sometimes dangerous) / Terence Ball -- When rhetoric turns manipulative: disentangling persuasion and manipulation / Nathaniel Klemp -- Political psychology. Changing brains: lessons from the living wage campaign / George Lakoff -- Emotional manipulation of political identity / Rose McDermott -- Mimēsis, persuasion, and manipulation in Plato's Republic / Christina Tarnopolsky / Mass media. "News you can't use": politics and democracy in the new media environment / Richard L. Fox and Amy Gangl -- The betrayal of democracy: the purpose of public opinion survey research and its misuse by presidents / Lawrence R. Jacobs / The political economy of mass media: implications for informed citizenship / Shanto Iyengar and Kyu S. Hahn -- Exploiting the clueless: heresthetic, overload, and rational ignorance / Andrew Sabl
Summary
Manipulation is a source of pervasive anxiety in contemporary American politics. This book offers a comprehensive dialogue between empirical political scientists and normative theorists on the definition and contemporary practice of democratic manipulation
