The Absolutist Advantage: Sacred Rhetoric in Contemporary Presidential Debate

Marietta, Morgan

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“…Some of this research has examined the rhetorical strategies employed by politicians, frequently being critical of the standards of argumentation employed (Marietta 2009;Siepmann 1962). Other researchers have critiqued the focus on debate winners, losers, and electoral impacts.…”

Section: Parliamentary Democraciesmentioning

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A Different Beast? Televised Election Debates in Parliamentary Democracies

Anstead

2016

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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The author would like to thank Nora Kroeger for her work on this project, and the LSE for financial support for this research. Thanks should also go to Sonia Livingstone for very useful comments on an earlier draft, plus two anonymous referees for constructive feedback on the original submission. Finally, the author would like to thank conference attendees who commented on this paper at the APSA General Meeting in San Francisco and the IJPP conference in Oxford, both in September 2016. Errors or omissions are entirely the responsibility of the author. 2 AbstractResearch on televised election debates has been dominated by studies of the United States. As a result, we know far less about other national contexts, including the many parliamentary democracies that now hold televised election debates. This article makes two contributions to address this. Theoretically, the study argues that traditional approaches for understanding the development of campaign communication practices (particularly, Americanization and hybridization) are limiting when applied to television debates, and instead offers an alternative theoretical approach, the concept of speciation drawn from biological science. This is then applied in the empirical section of the article in a comparative analysis of the evolution of televised election debates in four parliamentary democracies: Australia, Canada, West Germany/Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on this analysis, the article argues that the logic of parliamentary democracy coupled with more diffuse party systems has created a distinctive type of televised debate, generally more open to smaller parties based on their success at winning seats in the legislature.

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Section: Parliamentary Democraciesmentioning

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A Different Beast? Televised Election Debates in Parliamentary Democracies

Anstead

2016

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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“…Some suggest his conceptualization of moral politics is politically biased toward Democrats, inattentive to the role of media, and logically inconsistent by assuming that political elites are in control of framing (Bar-Lev, 2007;Barker & Tinnick, 2006;Iyengar, 2005). Others agree with Lakoff's premise that Republicans benefit from a strategic communicative advantage but disagree that metaphors of the family are the source of perceived moral authority (Marietta, 2009). Our strategy for examining the integrity of Lakoff's system, as well as the criticisms leveled against it, is to provide a more panoramic view of the presence of moral metaphors throughout the last 60 years of presidential campaign advertisements.…”

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Lakoff's Theory of Moral Reasoning in Presidential Campaign Advertisements, 1952–2012

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Communication Studies

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“…Voters saw them as principled and determined and therefore liked them more. However, sacred rhetoric did not infl uence how leaders were viewed in terms of caring, competence, or intelligence (Marietta 2009 ).…”

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“…As Morgan Marietta has shown, absolutist rhetoric can be frequent even when sacred values are not at stake (Marietta 2009 ). In the USA, the Republic Party has used such rhetoric to create an "absolutist advantage" in discourse by simultaneously activating constituents on the issue while discrediting liberals in the moral sphere.…”

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Handbook of International Negotiation

Galluccio¹

2015

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contributor Mauro Galluccio's present volume appears to fi ll in an existing and ever more visible void in shaping an entirely new approach in modern-day diplomacy. The signifi cance of this book can hardly be over-rated. It offers an entirely new political and psychological angle to transforming confl ict by managing interpersonal dynamics and tailoring preventive behaviors. It alerts us to the crucial role of the mental heritage of confl icts and powerful emotions. In brief, it enhances an entirely new type of negotiation as a fundamental tool of managing, preventing, and resolving confl ict by acknowledging the diversity of mental viewpoints about any given reality.This volume can indeed serve as a handbook to practitioners-diplomats and decision-makers-in educating themselves, in reshaping their own outlook, and in even bettering themselves as individuals in positions of authority and responsibility for bringing positive change to the lives of millions of people. Elena Poptodorova Ambassador of Bulgaria to the United StatesGalluccio has brought together a distinguished and diverse group of scholars and practitioners to address an enduring, if evolving, challenge to human wellbeing: violent confl ict between nations and subnational groups. His aim is to organize the interdisciplinary character of the research, on which the authors draw, into coherent perspectives on the causes of confl icts and potentially effective interventions designed to prevent and resolve them.There is much that is new here. Perhaps most important, there is a focus on the personal and emotional character of confl ict-for those who engage in it and those who intervene to mitigate it.

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The Absolutist Advantage: Sacred Rhetoric in Contemporary Presidential Debate

Cited by 35 publications

References 17 publications

A Different Beast? Televised Election Debates in Parliamentary Democracies

A Different Beast? Televised Election Debates in Parliamentary Democracies

Lakoff's Theory of Moral Reasoning in Presidential Campaign Advertisements, 1952–2012

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