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  • The Australian Citizens’ Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy

    Edited by Lyn Carson, John Gastil, Janette Hartz-Karp, Ron Lubensky ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    Growing numbers of scholars, practitioners, politicians, and citizens recognize the value of deliberative civic engagement processes that enable citizens and governments to come together in public spaces and engage in constructive dialogue, informed discussion, and decisive deliberation. This book seeks to fill a gap in empirical studies in deliberative democracy by studying the assembly of the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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  • A Yankee In Canada (Illustrated and Annotated)

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    A Yankee in Canada: Illustrated and Annotated Edition by Henry David Thoreau.Henry Thoreau traveled to Canada from September 25 to October 2, 1850. His account was first published serially in 1853, in Putnam's Monthly, as "An Excursion to Canada", then in book form in 1866, in A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers.In the summer of 1846, tax collector Samuel Staples arrested ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Resentment

    A Genealogy

    by Jeremy Engels ...
    In the days and weeks following the tragic 2011 shooting of nineteen Arizonans, including congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, there were a number of public discussions about the role that rhetoric might have played in this horrific event. In question was the use of violent and hateful rhetoric that has come to dominate American political discourse on television, on the radio, and at the podium. A ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Dilemmas of Inclusion

    Muslims in European Politics

    by Rafaela M. Dancygier ...
    As Europe’s Muslim communities continue to grow, so does their impact on electoral politics and the potential for inclusion dilemmas. In vote-rich enclaves, Muslim views on religion, tradition, and gender roles can deviate sharply from those of the majority electorate, generating severe trade-offs for parties seeking to broaden their coalitions. Dilemmas of Inclusion explains when and why European ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Posters for Peace

    Visual Rhetoric and Civic Action

    by Thomas W. Benson ...
    By the spring of 1970, Americans were frustrated by continuing war in Vietnam and turmoil in the inner cities. Students on American college campuses opposed the war in growing numbers and joined with other citizens in ever-larger public demonstrations against the war. Some politicians—including Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew, and Richard Nixon—exploited the situation to cultivate anger against ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Voting Deliberatively

    FDR and the 1936 Presidential Campaign

    by Mary E. Stuckey ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    The 1932 election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt seemed to hold the promise of Democratic domination for years to come. However, leading up to the 1936 election, persistent economic problems, a controversial domestic agenda, and the perception of a weak foreign policy were chipping away at public support. The president faced unrelenting criticism from both the Left and the Right, and it seemed ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Constitutive Visions

    Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador

    by Christa J. Olson ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    In Constitutive Visions, Christa Olson presents the rhetorical history of republican Ecuador as punctuated by repeated arguments over national identity. Those arguments—as they advanced theories of citizenship, popular sovereignty, and republican modernity—struggled to reconcile the presence of Ecuador’s large indigenous population with the dominance of a white-mestizo minority. Even as indigenous ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation

    Edited by Christian Kock, Lisa Villadsen ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    Citizenship has long been a central topic among educators, philosophers, and political theorists. Using the phrase “rhetorical citizenship” as a unifying perspective, Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation aims to develop an understanding of citizenship as a discursive phenomenon, arguing that discourse is not prefatory to real action but in many ways constitutive of civic engagement. To ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Evolving Citizen

    American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement

    by Jay P. Childers ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    It has become a common complaint among academics and community leaders that citizens today are not what they used to be. Nowhere is this decline seen to be more troubling than when the focus is on young Americans. Compared to the youth of past generations, today’s young adults, so the story goes, spend too much time watching television, playing video games, and surfing the Internet. As a result, ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Museum Rhetoric

    Building Civic Identity in National Spaces

    by M. Elizabeth Weiser ...
    Series series RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
    In today’s diverse societies, museums are the primary institutions within the public sphere in which individuals can both engage critical thought and celebrate community. This volume uses the lens of rhetoric to explore the role these societal repositories play in establishing and altering cultural heritage and national identity.Based on fieldwork conducted in over sixty museums in twenty-two ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Democracy, Deliberation, and Education

    by Robert Asen ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    The local school board is one of America’s enduring venues of lay democracy at work. In Democracy, Deliberation, and Education, Robert Asen takes the pulse of this democratic exemplar through an in-depth study of three local school boards in Wisconsin. In so doing, Asen identifies the broader democratic ideal in the most parochial of American settings.Conducted over two years across racial, ethnic ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Speech and Debate as Civic Education

    Edited by J. Michael Hogan, Jessica A. Kurr, Michael J. Bergmaier, Jeremy D. Johnson ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    In an era increasingly marked by polarized and unproductive political debates, this volume makes the case for a renewed emphasis on teaching speech and debate, both in and outside of the classroom.Speech and debate education leads students to better understand their First Amendment rights and the power of speaking. It teaches them to work together collaboratively to solve problems, and it ... Read more

    $27.59 USD