De Landtsheer and Feldman draw together a collection of research essays examining the nature, characteristics, content, and reception of public rhetoric in various cultures and social settings. The volume focuses on three concerns. First, it examines public speech and symbols in various countries in both the East and the West. Second, it details various methods to study political discourse. Third, it reviews public speech and symbols in relationship to citizenship.
As a unique study of the ways in which public speech works in a variety of nations to liberate and educate when...
De Landtsheer and Feldman draw together a collection of research essays examining the nature, characteristics, content, and reception of public rhe...
Feldman, Valenty, and their contributors present state-of-the-art evaluations of linkages between personality, motivation, decision making, leadership style, and behavior among political leaders across divergent cultures. Leading scholars in the field examine the application of theoretical approaches and research methods used to evaluate these important relationships. They effectively illustrate the concomitant role of cultural and political context, historical circumstance, environmental factors, and socialization agents affecting political leadership and...
Feldman, Valenty, and their contributors present state-of-the-art evaluations of linkages between personality, motivation, decision making, leaders...
Valenty, Feldman, and their contributors challenge the current state of political leadership studies by offering a variety of analytical methods from scholars around the world. While focused on American political leadership, the different approaches and vantage points offer fresh insights of the roles of cultural and political context, including the historical circumstance, environmental factors, and socialization agents that affect and shape American political leadership and performance.
The highly unusual and valuable approach includes multidisciplinary perspectives with contributors...
Valenty, Feldman, and their contributors challenge the current state of political leadership studies by offering a variety of analytical methods fr...
Based on the notion that political society is formed by language, and that in a broad sense the essence of politics is talk, this work examines the multifarious aspects of political discourse in Japan. Focusing on the rhetoric used by members of the political elite and the news media in Japan as the core of political dynamics in this country, "Talking Politics in Japan Today" addresses explicit and implicit meanings of slogans and gaffes, political cartoons in daily newspapers, the nature of political interviews on Japanese television, and the ways non-Japanese perceive Japan s views of world...
Based on the notion that political society is formed by language, and that in a broad sense the essence of politics is talk, this work examines the mu...
