The Comedy of Democracy

Download or read book The Comedy of Democracy written by James E. Combs and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1996-02-28 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of society and politics as drama has drawn much attention in recent years. Yet despite the heritage begun by Aristophanes, few students of politics and the social order have taken comedy and comic inquiry seriously. This book revives the Aristophanic notion of democracy as comedy. Herein the reader will find why and how different aspects of American democracy—public opinion, interest groups, the presidency, and so on—are comic. It is the author's contention that the comic perspective offers insight and understanding on the actual operation of democracy. And they invite all those who wish to understand why American democracy is so comic to join them in their inquiry.