Rethinking the rhetorical presidency /

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Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Description:	vi, 290 pages ; 26 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Presidents -- United States. Executive power -- United States. Political oratory -- United States. Executive power. Political oratory. Presidents. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11428776

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Other authors / contributors:	Friedman, Jeffrey, 1959- Friedman, Shterna.
ISBN:	9780415696234 0415696232
Notes:	This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review: A journal of Politics and Society. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	In The Rhetorical Presidency, Jeffrey Tulis argues that the president's relationship to the public has changed dramatically since the Constitution was enacted: while previously the president avoided any discussions of public policy so as to avoid demagoguery, the president is now expected to go directly to the public, using all the tools of rhetoric to influence public policy. This has effectively created a "second" Constitution that has been layered over, and in part contradicts, the original one. In this volume, scholars from different subfields of political science extend Tulis's perspective to the judiciary and Congress; locate the origins of the constitutional change in the Progressive Era; highlight the role of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, ad the mass media in transforming the presidency; discuss the nature of demagoguery and whether, in fact, rhetoric is undesirable; and relate the rhetorical to the public's ignorance of the workings of a government more complex than the Founders imagined.

Table of Contents:

The practical origins of the rhetorical presidency / Terri Bimes
Demagoguery, statesmanship, and the American Presidency / James W. Ceaser
The layered rhetorical presidency / David A. Crockett
The hyper-rhetorical presidency / John J. DiIulio, Jr.
The idea of an un-rhetorical presidency / Bryan Garsten
The rhetorical presidency and the contemporary media environment / Susan Herbst
A rhetorical judiciary, too? / Kathleen Hall Jamieson & Jeffrey Gottfried
Presidents' party affiliations and their communication strategies / Mel Laracey
The rhetorical presidency and the partisan echo chamber / Nicole Mellow
The rhetorical and administrative presidencies / Sidney M. Milkis
The puzzle of the rhetorical presidency / Thomas L. Pangle
Presidential rhetoric from Wilson to "W" : Popular politics meets recalcitrant reality / Richard M. Pious
When the President speaks, how do the people respond? / Paul J. Quirk
Allegories of reading Tulis / Diane Rubenstein
"Publicity" and the progressive-era origins of modern politics / Adam D. Sheingate
The rhetorical presidency in retrospect / Jeffrey K. Tulis.

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