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Government, Law and Society
This document hopes to integrate political contexts into common reading practices,
to show the impact of politics on daily life. With collections that don't compress
issues into four-minute morality plays (as the television news do at their most
comprehensive), this collection may enable readers to find connections with peoples
around the world who live under the global socioeconomic system which affects us all.
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Campaign '92
The 1992 U.S. presidential campaign demonstrated little integrity.
Though the Democratic
and Republican
party platforms and Ross Perot's book United We Stand
described comprehensive plans for America, the candidates' speeches frequently
contradicted their own published global strategies in order to cater to
the day's local constituencies (to suit the audience). The parties'
supposition may have been that the entertainment corporations which own
American media would not expose this, and that the political consciousness
of American voters is so fleeting that promises could be revised or broken
without any threat of being recognized as hypocrisy. Feel free to look through the candidates speeches (and those from the Democratic Convention
as well) to find how your interests were described during the campaign:
Campaign '96
Newt Gingrich Rides the Third Wave
Political Humor
Presidential Campaign Speeches