Describe the role that politics plays in determining how power and resources, including control of information, are distributed in a society.
Compare how power is distributed between citizens and government in different economic and political systems.
Explain the historical origins of American democracy and the ways that the available media controlled the political narrative.
Describe the enduring tension in the United States between self-interested human nature and public-spirited government and the way that has been shaped in a mediated world.
Apply the five steps of critical thinking to this book’s themes of power and citizenship in American politics.
