Imagining American democracy: the rhetoric of new conservative populism

This dissertation studies historical and contemporary conservative rhetoric to argue that the political right's variant of American populism defines the rhetorical figure of "the people" as ontologically opposed to the state. This state-phobic rhetoric poses a threat to democratic del...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, Paul E.
Other Authors: Hingstman, David
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2013
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4996
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4996&context=etd