Leadership Performance And Rhetoric

Author : Adam B. Masters,John Uhr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319587745

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Leadership Performance and Rhetoric by Adam B. Masters,John Uhr Pdf

This book examines both the rhetorical content of contemporary public leadership and the leadership methods pioneered by early English statesman Sir Francis Bacon. In particular, it considers the use of public rhetoric to defend leadership legitimacy in six case studies, drawing on leadership contests in recent Australian political history. The authors map out the complex language of leadership in contemporary politics through chapter-length portraits of the inter-related political rhetoric of prime ministers Rudd, Gillard, Abbott and Turnbull, plus former foreign minister Bob Carr and indigenous leader Noel Pearson. The process is a novel application of leadership analysis derived from the political philosophy of Francis Bacon, who emerges as a founder of the study, and indeed practice, of political and public leadership. The book will appeal to students and scholars across the fields of political science, communication and rhetorical studies, and political history.

Author : Leroy G. Dorsey
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1603440569

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The Presidency and Rhetorical Leadership by Leroy G. Dorsey Pdf

Successful presidential leadership depends upon words as well as deeds. In this multifaceted look at rhetorical leadership, twelve leading scholars in three different disciplines provide in-depth studies of how words have served or disserved American presidents. At the heart of rhetorical leadership lies the classical concept of prudence, practical wisdom that combines good sense with good character. From their disparate treatments of a range of presidencies, an underlying agreement emerges among the historians, political scientists, and communication scholars included in the volume. To be effective, they find, presidents must be able to articulate the common good in a particular situation and they must be credible on the basis of their own character. Who they are and what they can do are thus twin pillars of successful rhetorical leadership. Leroy G. Dorsey introduces these themes, and David Zarefsky picks them up in looking at the historical development of rhetorical leadership within the office of the presidency. Each succeeding chapter then examines the rhetorical leadership of a particular president, often within the context of a specific incident or challenge that marked his term in office. Chapters dealing with George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton offer the specifics for a clearer understanding of how rhetoric serves leadership in the American presidency. This book provides an indispensable addition to the literature on the presidency and in leadership studies.

Author : R. A. W. Rhodes,Paul 't Hart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199653881

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The Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership by R. A. W. Rhodes,Paul 't Hart Pdf

Political leadership has returned to the forefront of research in political science in recent years, after several years of neglect. This Handbook provides a broad-ranging and cohesive examination of the study of political leadership.

Author : Ofer Feldman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781789904581

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The Rhetoric of Political Leadership by Ofer Feldman Pdf

This timely book details the theoretical and practical elements of political rhetoric and their effects on the interactions between politicians and the public. Expert contributors explore the issues associated with political rhetoric from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including political science, linguistics, social psychology and communication studies. Chapters examine what makes a speech effective, politicians’ use of moral appeals in political advertising, political attacks on social media, and gender and emotion in political discourse.

Author : J. Uhr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137506498

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Prudential Public Leadership by J. Uhr Pdf

This book recovers Aristotle's understanding of the roles of rhetoric and prudence in public leadership, comparing it to the other major political theories of leadership: utilitarianism, as advocated by J.S. Mill, and duty-ethics, as advocated by Immanuel Kant.

Author : Hart, Roderick P.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781466650008

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Communication and Language Analysis in the Corporate World by Hart, Roderick P. Pdf

While personal variables like age, education, and gender are often thought to contribute to a person’s distinctive speech pattern, corporate environments often develop its own way of communication which include larger scale variables like the economy and organizational traditions. Communication and Language Analysis in the Corporate World provides insight into the verbiage of the corporate world and the influence of this environment for a person’s speech pattern, language, and terminology. This book will provide a guide for language researchers and business leaders alike so that they may find a way to communicate with everyone – customers, colleagues, and CEOs – effectively.

Author : Anthony Edward Zupancic
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000921304

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The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education by Anthony Edward Zupancic Pdf

At its very center, The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education: The Available Means is a study of the subtle, organic ways that rhetoric can work to cultivate a particular character. This is an extension of the current work in composition studies, which focus on the ways that writing instruction contributes to the development of individual power and agency in students, combined with an ancient understanding of the ways that students learned to act within a particular, accepted cultural framework. It recognizes and reclaims a lost dimension of rhetoric, a dimension that is conceptually linked to the martial culture of the ancient world, to show how ancient rhetorical theory framed the discipline as an education in thinking, speaking, and acting in ways that were necessary to be both a persuasive speaker and an effective leader. Through close readings and analysis of particular rhetorical exercises, the book shows how rhetorical education shaped characters that were appropriate in the eyes of the dominant culture but were also capable of working independently to progressively alter that culture. In showing the ways that rhetorical education shaped a particular character, the book demonstrates the ways that the combination character, culture, and virtue are vital to leadership in any time.

Author : Robert Elgie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137347084

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Studying Political Leadership by Robert Elgie Pdf

Why are some political leaders stronger than others? How do we make sense of the interaction between the leader's personality and the context that the leader faces? This book provides a unique way of approaching these questions, identifying the very different philosophical foundations that underpin the contemporary study of political leadership.

Author : Henriette Müller,Ingeborg Tömmel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192649973

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Women and Leadership in the European Union by Henriette Müller,Ingeborg Tömmel Pdf

This volume is the first comprehensive analysis of women's ascendance to leadership positions in the European Union as well as their performance in such positions. It provides a new theoretical and analytical framework capturing both positional and behavioural leadership and the specific hurdles that women encounter on their path to and when exercising leadership. The volume encompasses a detailed set of single and comparative case studies, analyzing women's representation and performance in the core EU institutions and their individual pathways to and exercise of power in top-level functions, as well as comparative analyses regarding the position and behaviour of women in relation to men. Based on these individual studies, the volume draws overarching conclusions about women's leadership in the EU. Regarding positional leadership, women continue to be underrepresented in leadership positions, they more often hold less prestigious portfolios in such positions, and manifold structural hurdles hamper their access to power. Furthermore, huge variations exist across EU institutions, with the intergovernmental bodies being the hardest to access. Regarding behavioural leadership, women acting in powerful EU positions generally perform excellently. They successfully exercise a combined leadership style that integrates attributes of leadership considered to be 'masculine' and 'feminine'. This is not to argue that women per se are the better leaders. Yet more often than men they are exposed to stronger selection processes and their prevalent practice of a combined leadership style tends to best meet the requirements of modern democratic systems and particularly those of the highly fragmented EU.

Author : John Gaffney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Communication in politics
ISBN : 1349700460

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Leadership and the Labour Party by John Gaffney Pdf

Author : Justin S. Vaughn,Jennifer Mercieca
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781623490423

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The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations by Justin S. Vaughn,Jennifer Mercieca Pdf

Campaign rhetoric helps candidates to get elected, but its effects last well beyond the counting of the ballots; this was perhaps never truer than in Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Did Obama create such high expectations that they actually hindered his ability to enact his agenda? Should we judge his performance by the scale of the expectations his rhetoric generated, or against some other standard? The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency grapples with these and other important questions. Barack Obama’s election seemed to many to fulfill Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of the “long arc of the moral universe . . . bending toward justice.” And after the terrorism, war, and economic downturn of the previous decade, candidate Obama’s rhetoric cast broad visions of a change in the direction of American life. In these and other ways, the election of 2008 presented an especially strong example of creating expectations that would shape the public’s views of the incoming administration. The public’s high expectations, in turn, become a part of any president’s burden upon assuming office. The interdisciplinary scholars who have contributed to this volume focus their analysis upon three kinds of presidential burdens: institutional burdens (specific to the office of the presidency); contextual burdens (specific to the historical moment within which the president assumes office); and personal burdens (specific to the individual who becomes president).

Author : Ray Crawford
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498587938

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The Legacy of Mayor Anthony Williams by Ray Crawford Pdf

The Legacy of Mayor Anthony Williams: Economic Development in the Federal City examines the leadership of former Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony Williams during his tenure in the office from 1998 to 2006. The first purpose of this book is to provide an analytical tool for effective mayoral leadership that will be appropriate for the unique characteristics of Washington, DC, which may also be applicable to other jurisdictions that have similar issues. The second purpose is to address the gap in academic analysis with a specific focus on political leadership at the mayoral level. This book, therefore, proffers the hypothesis that the performance of a scientific study with a specific focus on the issue of mayoral leadership within Washington, DC, will increase the probability of effective mayoral leadership in the future.

Author : Christina L. Moss,Brandon Inabinet
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781496836182

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Reconstructing Southern Rhetoric by Christina L. Moss,Brandon Inabinet Pdf

Contributions by Whitney Jordan Adams, Wendy Atkins-Sayre, Jason Edward Black, Patricia G. Davis, Cassidy D. Ellis, Megan Fitzmaurice, Michael L. Forst, Jeremy R. Grossman, Cynthia P. King, Julia M. Medhurst, Ryan Neville-Shepard, Jonathan M. Smith, Ashli Quesinberry Stokes, Dave Tell, and Carolyn Walcott Southern rhetoric is communication’s oldest regional study. During its initial invention, the discipline was founded to justify the study of rhetoric in a field of white male scholars analyzing significant speeches by other white men, yielding research that added to myths of Lost Cause ideology and a uniquely oratorical culture. Reconstructing Southern Rhetoric takes on the much-overdue task of reconstructing the way southern rhetoric has been viewed and critiqued within the communication discipline. The collection reveals that southern rhetoric is fluid and migrates beyond geography, is constructed in weak counterpublic formation against legitimated power, creates a region that is not monolithic, and warrants activism and healing. Contributors to the volume examine such topics as political campaign strategies, memorial and museum experiences, television and music influences, commemoration protests, and ethnographic experiences in the South. The essays cohesively illustrate southern identity as manifested in various contexts and ways, considering what it means to be a part of a region riddled with slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other expressions of racial and cultural hierarchy. Ultimately, the volume initiates a new conversation, asking what southern rhetorical critique would be like if it included the richness of the southern culture from which it came.

Author : Richard A. Cherwitz,Henry W. Johnstone Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136696169

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Rhetoric and Philosophy by Richard A. Cherwitz,Henry W. Johnstone Jr. Pdf

This important volume explores alternative ways in which those involved in the field of speech communication have attempted to find a philosophical grounding for rhetoric. Recognizing that rhetoric can be supported in a wide variety of ways, this text examines eight different philosophies of rhetoric: realism, relativism, rationalism, idealism, materialism, existentialism, deconstructionism, and pragmatism. The value of this book lies in its pluralistic and comparative approach to rhetorical theory. Although rhetoric may be the more difficult road to philosophy, the fact that it is being traversed by a group of authors largely from speech communication demonstrates important growth in this field. Ultimately, there is recognition that if different thinkers can have solid reasons to adhere to disparate philosophies, serious communication problems can be eliminated. Rhetoric and Philosophy will assist scholars in choosing from among the many philosphical starting places for rhetoric.

Author : M. Degani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137471598

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Framing the Rhetoric of a Leader by M. Degani Pdf

Based on a selection of 30 election campaign speeches during Obama's first run for the American presidency in 2008, this book investigates the Democratic presidential candidate's much celebrated rhetoric from a cognitive semantics point of view.