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Democracy & Civic Health
Politics Is for Power
By Eitan Hersh
A political scientist’s critique of ‘political hobbyism,’ or consuming political media as entertainment, versus real civic engagement, useful for practitioners distinguishing genuine participation from performative outrage.
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2020

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A political scientist’s critique of ‘political hobbyism,’ or consuming political media as entertainment, versus real civic engagement, useful for practitioners distinguishing genuine participation from performative outrage.

About the Author

Eitan Hersh is the inaugural director of the Center for Expanding Viewpoints in Higher Education at Tufts University, where he also teaches. He earned his PhD from Harvard and previously taught at Yale from 2011 to 2017.
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