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Delivering the People’s Message
Presidents have long invoked electoral mandates to justify the use of executive power. In Delivering the People's Message, Julia R. Azari draws on an original dataset of more than 1,500 presidential communications, as well as primary documents from six presidential libraries, to systematically examine choices made by presidents ranging from Herbert Hoover in 1928 to Barack Obama during his 2008 election. Azari argues that Ronald Reagan's election in 1980 marked a shift from the modern presidency formed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to what she identifies as a more partisan era for the presidency. This partisan model is a form of governance in which the president appears to require a popular mandate in order to manage unruly and deeply contrary elements within his own party and succeed in the face of staunch resistance from the opposition party.
Azari finds that when the presidency enjoys high public esteem and party polarization is low, mandate rhetoric is less frequent and employs broad themes. By contrast, presidents turn to mandate rhetoric when the office loses legitimacy, as in the wake of Watergate and Vietnam and during periods of intense polarization. In the twenty-first century, these two factors have converged. As a result, presidents rely on mandate rhetoric to defend their choices to supporters and critics alike, simultaneously creating unrealistic expectations about the electoral promises they will be able to fulfill.
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Legitimisation in Political Discourse
How did the G.W. Bush administration manage to persuade Americans to go to war in Iraq in March 2003? How was this intervention, and the global campaign named as \"war-on-terror,\" legitimised linguistically? This book shows that the best legitimisation effects in political discourse are accomplished through the use of 'proximization'-a cognitive-rhetorical strategy that draws on the speaker's ability to present events as directly and increasingly affecting the addressee, usually in a negative or threatening way. There are three aspects of proximization: spatial, temporal and axiological. The spatial aspect involves the construal of events in the discourse as physically endangering the addressee. The temporal aspect involves presenting the events as increasingly momentous and historic and hence of central significance to both the addressee and the speaker. The axiological aspect consists in a growing clash between the system of values adhered to by the speaker and the addressee, and the values characterizing a third party whose actions, ideologically negative, are made \"proximate\" and thus threatening. Although the tripartite model of proximization proposed in the book is very complex at the level of its linguistic realisation, the working assumption is intriguingly basic: addressees of political discourse are more likely to legitimise pre-emptive actions aimed at neutralizing the proximate \"threat\" if they construe the threat as personally consequential. The book shows how language of the war-on-terror, and especially the rhetoric of the Iraq war, respond to this precondition.
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The oral presidency of Barack Obama
This book offers an examination of the signature weapon of Barack Obama’s presidency: his speeches. It provides an in-depth, analytical look at the words of Barack Obama through the social and cultural contexts that made the content of his speeches timeless. The book draws on the oral tradition of the Black church in order to help explain aspects of the president’s speaking style and to establish a direct link between the president’s words and actions.
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Manifesting Violence
Exposes how white supremacist groups exploit digital
platforms to radicalize individuals
Manifesting Violence: White Terrorism, Digital Culture, and
the Rhetoric of Replacement by Casey Ryan Kelly and
William Joseph Sipe is a compelling exploration of how the
digital world has become a fertile ground for white supremacist
ideology. Through an in-depth analysis of white supremacist
manifestos, online rhetoric, and the myth of “white
genocide,” Kelly and Sipe uncover the disturbing ways in
which digital culture facilitates the spread of racist ideology
and the radicalization of individuals. By examining the
language of white nationalism—calls to defend the white
race, family, and children—Kelly and Sipe reveal how
these messages, often disguised as entertainment or humor,
gradually transform passive consumers into active participants
in a dangerous ideology.
Manifesting Violence sheds light on the alarming shift
from organized white supremacist groups to a decentralized
digital arena where hate speech is disguised as humor and
online conversations foster a culture of violence. Kelly and
Sipe’s thorough investigation of this growing digital
ecosystem offers a chilling glimpse into the dark underbelly of
online extremism. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand
the growing threat of hate-motivated violence and the urgent
need to address its roots in digital culture, Kelly and Sipe
offer rich insights to readers, researchers, academics, and
policymakers concerned about extremism, online radicalization,
and white supremacy.
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Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in an Age of Confessional Politics
When a Bible-quoting Sunday School teacher, Jimmy Carter, won the 1976 presidential election, it marked the start of a new era of presidential campaign discourse.The successful candidates since then have followed Carter's lead in publicly testifying about their personal religious beliefs and invoking God to justify their public policy positions.
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