Learning Objectives
- 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.