Presidential Policy Rhetoric: A Case Study of President George W. Bush's Social Security Reform Campaign - Softcover

Babener, Jeremy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3843352046 ISBN 13: 9783843352048

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

This book undertakes a holistic analysis of President George W. Bush's 2005 Social Security Reform Campaign arguing for the option to set aside a portion of one's contributions into a personal account with several investment alternatives. The campaign represents a particularly useful example of a concerted effort by a president to persuade the nation, partly because he led on the issue so publicly. In this attempt, the President did not succeed. Making use of classical and modern understandings of rhetoric, psychology, and political science, the book looks at the President's language, likely strategies, and evaluates his arguments. Few of the findings are likely unique to President Bush, speaking more generally to the practice of modern American political persuasion. Building on past work, the book develops several strategies of rhetorical campaign analysis, many of which unveil a political strategy that today's media and public should recognize more quickly: the preference and use of emotive over logical appeals.

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About the Author

Currently an NYU Tax Policy Fellow at the U.S. Treasury Department?s Office of Tax Policy for the Fall of 2010, he received his B.A. in Political Science from Haverford College in 2007, and his J.D. from NYU School of Law in 2010.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3843352046
• ISBN 13: 9783843352048
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92