Title Speaking with the people's voice : how presidents invoke public opinion / Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury

Edition First edition Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (x, 195 pages) Series Presidential Rhetoric and Political Communication ; Volume 23 Presidential rhetoric and political communication ; Volume 23. Contents The symbolic sovereignty of the people -- Driving the bandwagon -- Hail (to) the people -- Political correctives -- The presidential balancing act -- Notes Summary The role of public opinion in American democracy has been a central concern of scholars who frequently examine how public opinion influences policy makers and how politicians, especially presidents, try to shape public opinion. But in Speaking with the People's Voice: How Presidents Invoke Public Opinion, Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury asks a different question that adds an important new dimension to the study of public opinion: How do presidents rhetorically use public opinion in their speeches? In a careful analysis supported by case studies and discrete examples, Drury develops the concept of invoked public opinion to study the modern presidents' use of public opinion as a rhetorical resource. He defines the term as the rhetorical representation of the beliefs and values of US citizens. Speaking with the People's Voice considers both the strategic and democratic value of invoked public opinion by analyzing how modern presidents argumentatively deploy references to the beliefs and values of US citizens as persuasive appeals as well as acts of political representation in their nationally televised speeches Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-188) and index Notes Print version record Subject Communication in politics -- United States Political leadership -- United States Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Political aspects -- United States Presidents -- United States. Public opinion -- United States Political oratory -- United States POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General. Communication in politics Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Political aspects Political leadership Political oratory Presidents Public opinion United States UNITED STATES. Form Electronic book ISBN 1623491355 9781623491352

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