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  • Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness

    Exploring the Intersections of Power, Privilege, and Race

    Edited by Robert Asen, Casey Ryan Kelly ...
    Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness examines the interplay of rhetoric, whiteness, and economics—attending not only to how economic arrangements that sustain whiteness are rhetorically enacted and legitimated but also to how rhetoric itself operates as an economy to give identities exchange value. Case studies across the volume illustrate how economic and class structures incentivize adherence to ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Invoking the Invisible Hand

    Social Security and the Privatization Debates

    by Robert Asen ...
    Series series Rhetoric & Public Affairs
    In Invoking the Invisible Hand Robert Asen scrutinizes contemporary debates over proposals to privatize Social Security. Asen argues that a rights-based rhetoric employed by Social Security's original supporters enabled advocates of privatization to align their proposals with the widely held belief that Social Security functions simply as a return on a worker's contributions and that it is not, in ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Text + Field

    Innovations in Rhetorical Method

    Edited by Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez, Robert Glenn Howard ...
    Rhetorical critics have long had a troubled relationship with method, viewing it as at times opening up provocative avenues of inquiry, and at other times as closing off paths toward meaningful engagement with texts. Text + Field shifts scholarly attention from this conflicted history, looking instead to the growing number of scholars who are supplementing text-based scholarship by venturing out ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Visions of Poverty

    Welfare Policy and Political Imagination

    by Robert Asen ...
    Series series Rhetoric & Public Affairs
    Images of poverty shape the debate surrounding it. In 1996, then President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform legislation repealing the principal federal program providing monetary assistance to poor families, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). With the president's signature this originally non-controversial program became the only title of the 1935 Social Security Act to be repealed. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Public Modalities

    by Daniel C. Brouwer, Phaedra Carmen Pezzullo, Robert Asen, Helene A. Shugart, Robert Glenn Howard, Joshua Gunn, John M. Sloop, Sara L. McKinnon, Radha S. Hegde0, Stephen P. Depoe1, Dale Martin Smith2, Eric King Watts, Ph.D.3 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A bold rethinking of public discourse, Public Modalities explores how people shape civic life through protest, media, and identity in an ever-evolving public sphere.This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of “the public” or “public life,” and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • School Choice and the Betrayal of Democracy

    How Market-Based Education Reform Fails Our Communities

    by Robert Asen ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    Evidence shows that the increasing privatization of K–12 education siphons resources away from public schools, resulting in poorer learning conditions, underpaid teachers, and greater inequality. But, as Robert Asen reveals here, the damage that market-based education reform inflicts on society runs much deeper. At their core, these efforts are antidemocratic.Arguing that democratic communities ... Read more

    $26.99 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

    $27.99 USD

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  • Never Enough

    Americas Limitless Welfare State

    by William Voegeli ...
    Since the beginning of the New Deal, American liberals have insisted that the government must do more-much more-to help the poor, to increase economic security, to promote social justice and solidarity, to reduce inequality, and to mitigate the harshness of capitalism. Nonetheless, liberals have never answered, or even acknowledged, the corresponding question: What would be the size and nature of ... Read more

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  • Living Legislation

    Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Lawmaking

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    Political scholars examine the dynamic evolution of laws over time in a volume that "pushes the frontiers of knowledge about lawmaking in the US" ( Choice).Politics is at its most dramatic during debates over important pieces of legislation. And while debates over legislative measures can rage for years or even decades before an item is enacted, they also endure long afterward, when the political ... Read more

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  • The Right Talk

    How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society

    by Mark A. Smith ...
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  • Official Knowledge

    Democratic Education in a Conservative Age

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