Do celebrities make policy?

Street, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9650-063X (2024) Do celebrities make policy? The Political Quarterly, 95 (4). pp. 672-678. ISSN 0032-3179

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Abstract

Do celebrities exercise power over policy making? It can seem that they do, at least in the way the media reports their political activities. We need to think only of the coverage of the footballer Marcus Rashford's seemingly successful campaign to get the Johnson administration to change its policy on free school meals. But are such accounts to be trusted? This is a question whose answer has implications for how we understand and judge contemporary democracy. Celebrities, after all, are unelected and unaccountable. This article asks, therefore, whether it is plausible to claim that stars of popular culture are to be counted amongst the politically powerful.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy and Area Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Cultural Politics, Communications & Media Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Policy & Politics Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	20 Aug 2024 12:30
Last Modified:	14 Dec 2024 01:39
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96279
DOI:	10.1111/1467-923X.13446

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