Political Humor: Theoretical Questions, Methodological Suggestions
摘要
The advantage and disadvantage of an anthology like this one is that the reader receives a fascinating picture regarding the variety of political humorPolitical humor around the world—but such variety makes it difficult for any coherent picture to emerge regarding political humorPolitical humor writ large (globally). The present concluding chapter raises several questions regarding the possibilities for such “universal” theorizing and offers some methodological proposals for carrying out such research. Although it is clear that the subject of political humor Political humoris at base qualitative, with a high degree of subjectivity, nevertheless it might well be possible to employ more rigorous approaches to the phenomenon that after all has existed for well over two millennia and still found almost everywhere around the world.