<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Jason Stanley’s <italic>How Propaganda Works</italic> roots the danger of undermining propaganda in an ideology based account of politics, treating individuals’ beliefs and social belief systems as the primary target and mechanism of undermining propaganda. In this paper I suggest a theoretical alternative to the role ideology plays in Stanley’s theory and theories like it, which I call <italic>practice first</italic>. A practice first account instead treats public behavior as the primary target of propaganda, and analyzes undermining propaganda as altering the incentive structure that sets the terms for public behavior.</p></abstract>

Jason Stanley’s How Propaganda Works roots the danger of undermining propaganda in an ideology based account of politics, treating individuals’ beliefs and social belief systems as the primary target and mechanism of undermining propaganda. In this paper I suggest a theoretical alternative to the role ideology plays in Stanley’s theory and theories like it, which I call practice first. A practice first account instead treats public behavior as the primary target of propaganda, and analyzes undermining propaganda as altering the incentive structure that sets the terms for public behavior.

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Jason Stanley’s How Propaganda Works roots the danger of undermining propaganda in an ideology based account of politics, treating individuals’ beliefs and...

The Empire Has No Clothes

Online veröffentlicht: 08. Dez. 2020

Seitenbereich: 305 - 330

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2018-0007

Schlüsselwörter
Ideology, propaganda, practice first, common ground, incentive structure

© 2018 Olúfémi O. Táíwò, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Empire Has No Clothes

Online veröffentlicht: 08. Dez. 2020

Seitenbereich: 305 - 330

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2018-0007

SchlüsselwörterIdeology, propaganda, practice first, common ground, incentive structure

© 2018 Olúfémi O. Táíwò, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
Ideology, propaganda, practice first, common ground, incentive structure