The morality of spin : virtue and vice in political rhetoric and the Christian right /
The Morality of Spin explores the ethics of political rhetoric crafted to persuade and possibly manipulate potential voters. Based on extensive insider interviews with leaders of Focus on the Family, one of the most powerful Christian right organizations in America, Nathaniel Klemp asks whether the...
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The morality of spin : |b virtue and vice in political rhetoric and the Christian right / |c Nathaniel J. Klemp. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- I. Existing accounts -- Deliberative democracy and political rhetoric: Rawls and Habermas on rhetoric's moral status -- II. The moral qualities of rhetorical speech -- When rhetoric turns manipulative: disentangling persuasion and manipulation -- From theoretical to actual manipulation: the Christian right's two tiered rhetoric -- III. The moral qualities of rhetorical context -- Contextualizing rhetoric: from contestatory to one-sided information spaces -- Countercultural Christian enclaves: Focus on the Family's anti-contestatory practices -- Conclusion. | |
| 520 | |a The Morality of Spin explores the ethics of political rhetoric crafted to persuade and possibly manipulate potential voters. Based on extensive insider interviews with leaders of Focus on the Family, one of the most powerful Christian right organizations in America, Nathaniel Klemp asks whether the tactic of tailoring a message to a particular audience is politically legitimate or amounts to democratic malpractice. Klemp's nuanced assessment, highlighting both democratic vices and virtues of the political rhetoric, provides a welcome contribution to recent scholarship on deliberative democracy, rhetoric, and the growing empirical literature on the American Christian right. | ||
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