Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Lippmann, Dewey, and Democracy in a Hailstorm 1
5. 1 A “Constituency of Intangibles”: Walter Lippmann’s Plea for a Better Democracy 17
6. 2 The Lippmann/Lippmann Debate: What Role Do Social Movements Play in Democratic Politics? 29
7. 3 From the Illusions of Democracy to the Realities of Its Appearances 45
8. 4 Debates Conjured, Debates Forgotten 68
9. 5 Societal Embedding of the Lippmann/Dewey Debate: From Opinion Expression to Opinion Polling and Mining 88
10. 6 The Lippmann/Dewey Debate in the History of Twentieth-Century Progressivism 111
11. 7 Propaedeutic Rhetorical Citizenship: Deweyan Impulses in Danish Community-Building 138
12. 8 A Public and Its Solutions: Lippmann and Dewey Through the Prism of Norwegian Social Democracy 160
13. 9 Democracy Now: Recovering the Political Pragmatism of Walter Lippmann and John Dewey 182
14. 10 Democratic Deliberation, Identity, and Information 200
15. 11 Rhetorical Sociology and the Management of Public Discourse 217
16. List of Contributors 239
17. Index 241