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Mercieca, Jennifer. and Vaughn, Justin. "The Post-Rhetorical Legacy of George W. Bush" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA 2008 Annual Meeting, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2008 <Not Available>. 2010-01-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p279338_index.html>

Mercieca, J. R. and Vaughn, J. S. , 2008-08-28 "The Post-Rhetorical Legacy of George W. Bush" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA 2008 Annual Meeting, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <PDF>. 2010-01-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p279338_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: In this paper, we attempt to situate Bush�s rhetorical legacy within an on-going paradigmatic shift away from the era of the rhetorical presidency and into a new era, one that they define as the post-rhetorical presidency. Building upon theoretical foundations supplied in Jeffrey Tulis�s (1987) seminal text, The Rhetorical Presidency, our central contention is that, if the rhetorical presidency was about using communication to mobilize public support and achieve policy and political goals, the post-rhetorical presidency is about using presidential speech and other communicative tools to distract and stymie the mass public. Conceptually, the post-rhetorical presidency refers to communication strategies designed to confuse public opinion, prevent citizen action, and frustrate citizen deliberation. We examine post-rhetorical patterns in three key areas Bush�s presidential communication: his public speeches, his relationship with the press, and the increased practice of accompanying legislation with signing statements, a practice that Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson (2008) have referred to as a de facto item veto. Acknowledging the controversial nature of Bush�s rhetorical approach, they argue that Bush�s experience will both enable and constrain the rhetoric of future presidents. We note in particular that despite widespread opposition to the apparent disingenuousness of Bush�s rhetoric and a mass public more wary of presidential deception, future presidents will follow similar patterns of communication because the same external forces that shaped Bush and his immediate predecessors� relationships with the public�growing public expectations, ambition, and technological change�lie in store for the them, as well.

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