Rhetoric and demagoguery

Introduction: demagogues and demagoguery -- Invasion of Iraq and the evasion of policy deliberation -- Punishment/reward and binary paired terms -- Scapegoating and rationality markers -- When the choir claims to have been converted -- Anti-intellectualism and the appeal to expert opinion.

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1. Verfasser: Roberts-Miller, Patricia (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 2019
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: demagogues and demagoguery -- Invasion of Iraq and the evasion of policy deliberation -- Punishment/reward and binary paired terms -- Scapegoating and rationality markers -- When the choir claims to have been converted -- Anti-intellectualism and the appeal to expert opinion.
"Through a series of case studies, Patricia Roberts-Miller argues for seeing demagoguery as a way that people participate in public discourse, not necessarily populist and not necessarily heavily emotional. Demagoguery, she contents, depoliticizes political argument by making all issues into questions of identity"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:IX, 245 Seiten
ISBN:9780809337125
978-0-8093-3712-5