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Culture, rhetoric, and voting : the presidential election of 2012 / edited by Douglas M. Brattebo, Tom Lansford, Jack Covarrubias, Robert J. Pauly.
- Title
- Culture, rhetoric, and voting : the presidential election of 2012 / edited by Douglas M. Brattebo, Tom Lansford, Jack Covarrubias, Robert J. Pauly.
- Publication
- Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, 2016.
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- Description
- x, 296 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The presidential election of 2012 was among the most important in American history, both for the policies that will persist due to its result as well as the national political transformation it portends. The contest's outcome was the product of complex and fast-moving societal changes--demographic, technological, and economic--surfacing in American society. This volume, consisting of writings by leading scholars of American politics and the American presidency, examines the 2012 presidential election in its many facets. Particularly prominent in these analyses are: psychology, religion, and culture, rhetoric, and voting"--
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Obama, Barack
- Romney, Mitt
- Romney, Mitt
- Since 2009
- Presidents > United States > Election > 2012
- Voting > United States
- Political campaigns > United States
- Presidential candidates > United States
- Elections > United States
- Elections
- Political campaigns
- Politics and government
- Presidential candidates
- Presidents > Election
- Voting
- United States > Politics and government > 2009-2017
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : culture, rhetoric and voting in the 2012 election : historical observations / Douglas M. Brattebo and Robert J. Pauly, Jr. -- PART I. PSYCHOLOGY, RELIGION, AND CULURE. Understanding Barack Obama's leadership : gamble of the "rational democrat" / William D. Pederson -- Church and state in America : what Roger Williams might say regarding the 2012 presidential election / Max J. Skidmore -- Perceptions of Mormonism : Romney's faith-based challenges / Luke Perry -- The culture wars in the 2012 presidential election / Graham G. Dodds -- PART II. RHETORIC. The irrelevance of truth : postrhetorical campaigning and the 2012 conventions / Justin S. Vaughn -- The politics of inequality : how Team Obama appealed to the base in the 2012 presidential election / Matthew R. Miles -- No Soviet domination : presidential debates, the media, and public reaction / Douglas Mock -- Barack Obama's evolutionary rhetoric as a strategy for supporting same-sex marriage / Casey Malone Maugh -- PART III. VOTING. The predisposing, motivating, and constraining factors of early voting : assessing the impact of campaign strategies and voting laws / Lisa Hager -- Who plays the decider? : analyzing key voters in the 2012 election : "a mad men party in a modern family world" / William J. Miller and Sean D. Foreman -- Constituency appeals and group voting in the 2012 presidential election / Mark D. Brewer and Richard J. Powell.
- ISBN
- 9781629220383
- 1629220388
- 9781629220406 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781629220390 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2015038212
- OCLC
- 907101533
- 936527769
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library