Listening for a President: A Citizen's Campaign Methodology (Praeger Series in Political Communication)
ISBN-13:
9780275932459
ISBN-10:
0275932451
Edition:
n
Author:
Dan F. Hahn, Ruth Gonchar Brennan
Publication date:
1990
Publisher:
Praeger
Format:
Hardcover
217 pages
Category:
Political Science
,
United States
,
Politics & Government
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ISBN-13:
9780275932459
ISBN-10:
0275932451
Edition:
n
Author:
Dan F. Hahn, Ruth Gonchar Brennan
Publication date:
1990
Publisher:
Praeger
Format:
Hardcover
217 pages
Category:
Political Science
,
United States
,
Politics & Government
Summary
Listening for a President: A Citizen's Campaign Methodology (Praeger Series in Political Communication) (ISBN-13: 9780275932459 and ISBN-10: 0275932451), written by authors
Dan F. Hahn, Ruth Gonchar Brennan, was published by Praeger in 1990.
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In their tenth co-authored study, Brennan and Hahn propose both a new method of biographical study for students of political communication and a new way of evaluating candidates for presidential office. The authors argue that given the biases inherent in the print and broadcast media, the only way to obtain accurate assessment about presidential candidates is to analyze information from the primary sources--the candidates themselves. They show how careful listening and rigorous analysis can enable the reader to extract reliable clues to presidential competence from the speeches, debates, press conferences, and advertising spots of the candidates. Challenging traditional rhetorical criticism in which biography is used to help evaluate speeches, Brennan and Hahn demonstrate that speeches can be effectively used to arrive at reliable evaluations of speakers.In order to establish the need for a new approach, the authors begin with a critique of the major extant methods of political analysis (biography, psychobiography, political biography and rhetorical biography). They then respond to that need by focusing on methods of analyzing information directly from political speeches and other utterances, identifying five major arenas for evaluating candidates: personality orientation, leadership ideal, ideology, epistemology, and axiology. Each of the arenas is divided into theory and application sections, providing the reader with both the methods in practice and an understanding of why they work. The final chapter examines the relationship of the media to political analysis. A comprehensive bibliography completes the work.
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