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Informationen zum Autor By Nathaniel J. Klemp Klappentext The Morality of Spin explores the ethics of political rhetoric crafted to persuade and possibly manipulate potential voters. Based on extensive insider interviews with leaders of Focus on the Family, one of the most powerful Christian right organizations in America, Nathaniel Klemp asks whether the tactic of tailoring a message to a particular audience is politically legitimate or amounts to democratic malpractice. Klemp's nuanced assessment, highlighting both democratic vices and virtues of the political rhetoric, provides a welcome contribution to recent scholarship on deliberative democracy, rhetoric, and the growing empirical literature on the American Christian right. Inhaltsverzeichnis AbstractIntroductionPART 1: Existing AccountsChapter 1: Deliberative Democracy and Political Rhetoric: Rawls and Habermas on Rhetoric's Moral StatusPART 2: The Moral Qualities of Rhetorical SpeechChapter 2: When Rhetoric Turns Manipulative: Disentangling Persuasion and ManipulationChapter 3: From Theoretical to Actual Manipulation: The Christian Right's Two Tiered RhetoricPART 3: The Moral Qualities of Rhetorical ContextChapter 4: Contextualizing Rhetoric: From Contestatory to One-Sided Information SpacesChapter 5: Counter Cultural Christian Enclaves: Focus on the Family's Anti-Contestatory PracticesConclusion
