{"id":978,"date":"2015-11-30T19:47:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T01:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/?p=978"},"modified":"2015-11-30T19:47:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T01:47:01","slug":"andrew-perrin-on-american-political-publics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2015\/11\/30\/andrew-perrin-on-american-political-publics\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Perrin on American Political Publics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heading into a new presidential election cycle, we reconnect with\u00a02008\u00a0guest\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perrin.socsci.unc.edu\/\">Dr Andrew Perrin<\/a>\u00a0to talk about changes in the American political public. In his new book,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-0745662331.html\">American Democracy:\u00a0From Tocqueville to Town Halls to Twitter<\/a>, Perrin brings a uniquely sociological approach to the study of democracy. More than polls, candidates, and institutions he shows\u00a0how major elections\u00a0become about the performance\u00a0of\u00a0certain &#8220;publics&#8221; as much as they decide\u00a0which people\u00a0should lead us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2008\/11\/19\/contexts-podcast-1-jesus-and-andrew-perrin\/\">Find\u00a0that 2008 episode here<\/a>, and while you&#8217;re at it,\u00a0check out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/roundtables\/is-the-tea-party-over\/\">this 2015 TSP Roundtable<\/a> in which he\u00a0talks Tea Party and identity politics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/OH118_Perrin.mp3\">Download Office Hours #118<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heading into a new presidential election cycle, we reconnect with\u00a02008\u00a0guest\u00a0Dr Andrew Perrin\u00a0to talk about changes in the American political public. In his new book,\u00a0American Democracy:\u00a0From Tocqueville to Town Halls to Twitter, Perrin brings a uniquely sociological approach to the study of democracy. More than polls, candidates, and institutions he shows\u00a0how major elections\u00a0become about the performance\u00a0of\u00a0certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1993,"featured_media":984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[716],"tags":[15,85],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-culture","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/files\/2015\/11\/5177K1SVx-L._SX351_BO1204203200_.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1993"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}