Fixing American Politics

<p><em>Fixing American Politics:</em> <i>Solutions for the Media Age </i>brings together original chapters from 34 noted scholars from two disciplines – political science and communication – asked to identify the most pressing problems facing the American people and how they can be solved. Authors address the questions succinctly and directly with their favored solutions featured in chapter titles that exhort and inspire. </p><p>The book gives the reader much to think about and debate. Should news outlets be funded with public money rather than by private enterprise? Are the new social media a boon or a bane to political elections? Is the American past dead or is it living once again? Do churchgoers and environmentalists have anything to discuss? Is the FCC doing its job? Can political ads be made less toxic? Should Fox News be cancelled? Should cancel cultures be cancelled? Can we become more civil to one another and if so how? <i>Fixing American Politics </i>poses all the best questions … and offers some concrete answers as well. This book is perfect for students citizens the media and anyone concerned with contemporary challenges to civic life and discourse today.</p>