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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      15 December 2009
      16 September 2002
      ISBN:
      9780511613685
      9780521790451
      9780521793841
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511613685
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.632kg, 372 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.514kg, 372 Pages
      • Series:
      Communication, Society and Politics
      Subjects:
      Politics: General Interest, Political Sociology, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics, Media, Mass Communication, Sociology
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    Series:
    Communication, Society and Politics
    Subjects:
    Politics: General Interest, Political Sociology, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics, Media, Mass Communication, Sociology
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    Using controversy over abortion as a lens through which to compare the political process and role of the media in these two very different democracies, this book examines the contest over meaning that is being waged by social movements, political parties, churches and other social actors. Abortion is a critical battleground for debates over social values in both countries, but the constitutional premises on which arguments rest differ, as do the strategies that movements and parties adopt and the opportunities for influence that are open to them. By examining how these debates are conducted and by whom in light of the normative claims made by democratic theorists, the book also offers a means of judging how well either country lives up to the ideals of democratic debate in practice.

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    ‘I recommend Shaping Abortion Discourse to others interested in finding new ways to question our assumptions about the role the media plays in democratic public life.’

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