1st Edition

Rethinking the Rhetorical Presidency

Edited By Jeffrey Friedman, Shterna Friedman Copyright 2012
296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction

1. The Rhetorical Presidency in Historical and Conceptual Context, Jeffrey Friedman, government, University of Texas, Austin

Essays

2. The Practical Origins of the Rhetorical Presidency, Terri Bimes, political science, University of California, Berkeley

3. Demagoguery, Statesmanship, and the American Presidency, James W. Ceaser, political science, University of Virginia

4. The Layered Rhetorical Presidency, David A. Crockett, political science, Trinity University

5. The Hyper-Rhetorical Presidency, John J. Diiulio, Jr., political science, University of Pennsylvania

6. The Idea of an Un-Rhetorical Presidency, Bryan Garsten, political science, Yale University

7. The Rhetorical Presidency and the Contemporary Media Environment, Susan Herbst, public policy, Georgia Tech University

8. A Rhetorical Judiciary, Too? Kathleen Hall Jamieson, communications, University of Pennsylvania and Jeffrey Gottfried,

9. Presidents’ Party Affiliations and their Communication Strategies, Mel Laracey, political science, University of San Antonio

10. The Rhetorical Presidency and the Partisan Echo Chamber, Nicole Mellow, political science, Williams College

11. The Rhetorical and Administrative Presidencies, Sidney M. Milkis, political science, University of Virginia

12. The Puzzle of The Rhetorical Presidency, Thomas Pangle, political science, University of Texas, Austin

13. Presidential Rhetoric from Wilson to "W": Popular Politics Meets Recalcitrant Reality, Richard M. Pious, political science, Barnard College

14. When the President Speaks, How Do the People Respond?, Paul J. Quirk, political science, University of British Columbia

15. Allegories of Reading Tulis, Diane Rubenstein, government, Cornell University

16. "Publicity" and the Progressive-Era Origins of Modern Politics, Adam D. Sheingate, political science, Johns Hopkins University

Reply

17. The Rhetorical Presidency in Retrospect, Jeffrey K. Tulis, government, University of Texas, Austin

Biography

Jeffrey Friedman, a visiting scholar in the Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin, received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University. He is the author of Engineering the Financial Crisis (Penn, 2011, with Wladimir Kraus) and the editor of The Rational Choice Controversy: Economic Models of Politics Reconsidered (Yale, 1996), What Caused the Financial Crisis (Penn, 2011), and The Nature of Belief Systems (Routledge, 2011).

Shterna Friedman received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, University of Iowa. They are, respectively, the editor and managing editor of Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society and the co-editors of Political Knowledge (Routledge, 2012).