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Enacting the Presidency - Political Argument, Presidential Debates, and Presidential Character (Hardcover, New)
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Enacting the Presidency - Political Argument, Presidential Debates, and Presidential Character (Hardcover, New)
Series: Praeger Series in Political Communication
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Presidential debates are forums designed to present and select
candidates for national office: Their purpose is to provide
opportunities for candidates to win over undecided voters, to
reinforce voters who have already made a decision about who to vote
for, and to change the minds of those who are willing to reconsider
their initial judgments concerning which candidate seems more fit
to serve as president. Edward Hinck argues that debates are not
primarily about presidential policy-making. Rather, they are
opportunities to demonstrate a candidate's ability to lead by
summarizing, in a specific test of presidential character, the
larger conflict between the candidates. Hinck develops an in-depth
rhetorical analysis of the presidential and vice presidential
debates of 1960 to 1988. The analysis of each series of debates
begins with an introduction that focuses discussion on the most
important aspects of political image for each of the candidates,
then develops a case for understanding the ways in which the
debates revealed the rhetorical strengths and weaknesses of each
candidate's performance. Hinck's neo-Aristotelian approach asserts
that debates serve both deliberative and epideictic ends because
they provide important information about the candidates that cannot
be disclosed except in the dramatic confrontation of the debate,
and because this dramatic confrontation enacts the democratic
values of rational dialogue. Enacting The Presidency is recommended
to scholars in communication and political science.
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