A book series that examines the questions and issues at the heart of American democracy

 

Criteria to Evaluate
The requirements for manuscripts are as follows

• We are interested in books about the knowledge and behavior of citizens and public officials and/or the media’s role in educating or influencing citizens and public officials. Therefore, books about public policy issues (i.e., health care reform, foreign policy, environmental policy) would not be appropriate for this series. However, a book about the methods of environmental activists in influencing the public’s perception of environmental issues, or how political activity by hospital corporations has influenced the public debate over health care, would be very appropriate.

• Books should be written for and likely to be read by the general reader and political professionals, as well as academics and students.

• Books should relate to some modern phenomenon of mass media and public affairs; they may include historical context, but they should not be entirely antiquarian in topic or appeal.

• Books should be proactive, that is, not only identifying problems in the public sphere of politics and mass media but also advocating solutions or new ideas, i.e., they are the kind of books that researchers, policymakers, concerned citizens, and professional practitioners would find equally enlightening and useful.

• Books may have a tone of advocacy but they should not be polemics or purely partisan arguments.

• Books should be short volumes, no more than 250 pages.

Email inquires to Bob Mann at bookseries@lsu.edu