编辑：米海尔·胡斯佩克 （Michael Huspek ）为美国加州州立大学圣马科斯分校传播学教授。　　

　　出版商：劳特利奇（Routledge） ，2010年第1版。

　　内容简介：

　　本书是一部有关民主问题的论文集。书中的论文从诸多角度探索了在扩大公民话语权和民主国家之间存在的紧张关系，解释了民主国家所面临的对立话语的困境以及所承受的民主扩大的压力，对扩大公民话语权的有效路径作了设想。编辑米海尔·胡斯佩克认为，本书对于政治学等学科的学者和学生，具有一定的参考价值。

　　目录：　　

　　Introduction ；Michael Huspek；

　　Section 1: The Limits of Imperfect Democracies and How They Are Contested; 1. State Ideology and Oppositional Discourses: Conceptual and Methodological Issues; Peter Jones and Chik Collins; 2. Ideology, Discourse and Moral Economy: Consulting the People of North Manchester; Colin Barkerp; 3. Where State Power and Opposition Collide: Discourses of Labor Protest in a New Market Economy  Charles Woolfson; Section 2: State Responses to Oppositional Discourses and Democratization from Below; 4.Challenging New Laws with Old Values: Indigenous Resistance to State "Enforcement" of Children's Rights in Ghana; Janice Windborne; 5. State Power and the Reconstitution of Parental Rights in U.S. Child Custody Mediation; Lynn Comerford; 6. Weaving and Unweaving the Rights of Public Woman: The Case of Telephone Operators at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; J.S. Sutton; Section 3: Sustained Forces of Democratization and the Effectiveness of Oppositional Discourses; 7. Vigilance and Solidarity in the Rhetoric of the Black Press: The Tulsa Stap; Olga Idriss Davi; 8. "From the Standpoint of the White Man's World:" The Black Press and Contemporary White Media Scholarship; Michael Huspek; 9.Exposing the Hypocrisies of State Power: The African-American Press and the Holocaust; Felecia G. Jones Ross and Sakile Kai Camara; Section 4: Normative Contours of State and Oppositional Discourses; 10. The Philosophical Foundations of the Discourse Society; Darryl Gunson; 11.Habermas and Oppositional Public Spheres: A Stereoscopic Analysis of Competing Discourses; Michael Huspek; 12. The Rational Bases of Transgressive Rhetoric; Michael Huspek.