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Record Nr.

UNINA9910467605603321

Titolo

Culture, rhetoric, and voting : the presidential election of 2012 / / edited by Douglas M. Brattebo [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Akron, Ohio : , : The University of Akron Press, , 2016

ISBN

1-62922-039-6

1-62922-040-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

324.973/0932

Soggetti

Presidents - United States - Election - 2012

Voting - United States

Political campaigns - United States

Presidential candidates - United States

Elections - United States

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government 2009-2017

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--

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Record Nr.

UNISANNIOLO10087788

Autore

Federazione CGIL CISL UIL <Roma>

Titolo

Assemblea nazionale unitaria delle strutture di base : Rimini, 6-7-8 aprile 1974 / Federazione Cgil-Cisl-Uil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma, : Seusi, stampa 1974

Descrizione fisica

103 p. ; 19 cm.

Classificazione

IT/4430.0

IT/4436.2

IT/4436.8

X0.8/1974

Disciplina

331.8

331.88010945

331.880945

Soggetti

Sindacati - Italia - Congressi - 1974

Collocazione

POZZO LIB.F. SANTI                405

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia