The Rhetorical Challenge of the Carter Transition: To Build a Governing Majority

Tales Of Two Gubernatorial Transitions: Underlying Scripts For Press Coverage Of Political Events

“…Notes !A review of literature on presidential transitions is to be found in Lee et al (.1979), the first thoroughly study of this phenomenon from a rhetorical perspective. For a bibliography of the literature on gubernatorial transitions, see Beyle (1985: 459-461).…”

“…4In large part this code followed the one devised by Lee, et al, (1979) in their study of the Carter presidential transition with certain additions made necessary by the obvious diffferences between a presidential and a governor.…”