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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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 |