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Publication details [#2933]
Edelman, Murray. 1977. Political language: Words that succeed and policies that fail. Academic Press. xxii + 164 pp.
Annotation
E. analyzes the mechanisms (such as the use of political symbols) which enable political language to make people (i.e. both elites and non-elites) hold problematic beliefs that facilitate the quiescent acceptance of chronic poverty and inequality.