THE LANGUAGE OF POLITICAL PERSUASION: THREE CASE STUDIES EXPLORING “RHETORIC OF COERCION”

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dc.contributor.advisorWolfson, Dorothea I.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBlaney, Caitlin Brooken_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-11T04:16:52Z
dc.date.available2015-02-11T04:16:52Z
dc.date.created2014-05en_US
dc.date.issued2014-05-27en_US
dc.date.submittedMay 2014en_US
dc.description.abstractDoes specific rhetoric from leaders have a direct impact on influencing others? In their 2007 essay “Twisting Tongues and Twisting Arms”, Ronald R. Krebs and Patrick Thaddeus Jackson introduce a matrix which classifies the outcome of a political rhetorical campaign as either Policy Change, Mixed, Implications Contest, or Framing Contest. The matrix measures the rhetorical arguments of a Claimant (C) against the response of the Opposition (O), particularly when played out in front of the Public (P). Using three distinct case studies, the applicability and utility of their matrix is tested against a number of different types of scenarios. Case Study 1 applies the matrix to President Ronald Reagan’s State of the Union Addresses where he attempts to bring the American public around to his new policy of “rollback”. Case Study 2 analyses the differences between protest rhetoric in 1988-89 Poland and 2011 Tunisia to determine if certain types of protest rhetoric are more persuasive than others. Finally the third Case Study applies the matrix to rhetoric between Georgia and Russia in the months leading up to the 2008 war, to determine if Georgia is able to successfully persuade Russia to change their policy when publicly shamed. Each Case Study produced a different result, however the real question is whether the Krebs-Jackson formula is a successful measure of C’s rhetoric when attempting to influence O. It was determined that while it can be difficult to pinpoint the correlation or causation between C’s rhetoric and O’s response, the formula is an exceptionally useful tool to organize and clarify obscure political rhetoric.en_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/37272
dc.languageen
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins University
dc.subjectRhetoricen_US
dc.subjectcoercionen_US
dc.subjectlanguageen_US
dc.subjectpolitical communicationen_US
dc.subjectpolitical scienceen_US
dc.subjectgeopoliticsen_US
dc.subjectpersuasionen_US
dc.subjectcase studiesen_US
dc.titleTHE LANGUAGE OF POLITICAL PERSUASION: THREE CASE STUDIES EXPLORING “RHETORIC OF COERCION”en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialtexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentGovernment Programen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineGovernmenten_US
thesis.degree.grantorJohns Hopkins Universityen_US
thesis.degree.grantorAdvanced Academic Programsen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameM.A.en_US
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