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

Publication Info.	College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2014]
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Edition	First edition.
Description	1 online resource (x, 195 pages).
Series	Presidential Rhetoric and Political Communication ; Volume 23
	Presidential rhetoric and political communication ; Volume 23.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	The symbolic sovereignty of the people -- Driving the bandwagon -- Hail (to) the people -- Political correctives -- The presidential balancing act -- Notes.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-188) and index.
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.
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. (OCoLC)fst00870243
	Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst01058899
	Political leadership. (OCoLC)fst01069363
	Political oratory. (OCoLC)fst01069380
	Presidents. (OCoLC)fst01075723
	Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst01082785
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Note	How presidents invoke public opinion
Other Form:	Print version: Drury, Jeffrey P. Mehltretter. Speaking with the people's voice. First edition. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2014] 9781623490447 (DLC) 2013030342 (OCoLC)855263759
ISBN	1623491355 (electronic bk.)
	9781623491352 (electronic bk.)

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