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Managed Convictions: Debate And The Limits Of Electoral Politics, Ronald Walter Greene, Darrin Hicks

Ronald Walter Greene

In response to Kathleen Hall Jamieson’s proposed agenda for future Presidential debate research, we recall the troubled relation between debate and conviction, which has fueled disciplinary and public controversy throughout the last century. Following a brief genealogy of three such controversies, we describe four models of debate as a cultural technology for managing the economy of moral conviction: debate as critical deliberation, debate as civic virtue, debate as social justice, and debate as game. We claim that reading Jamieson’s proposal in light of these technologies reveals a potentially disturbing fault line: if we fail to distance the aims and methods …

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Managed Convictions: Debate And The Limits Of Electoral Politics, Ronald Walter Greene, Darrin Hicks

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Missiles As Messages: Appeals To Force In President Obama's Strategic Maneuverability On The Use Of Chemical Weapons In Syria, Ronald Walter Greene, Jay Alexander Frank

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Struggle For The Commons: Communicative Labor, Control Economics, And The Rhetorical Marketplace, Ronald Walter Greene, Sara Holiday Nelson

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Aune's Leadership: Hegemony And The Rhetorical Perspective On Argumentation, Ronald Walter Greene, Alexander Hiland

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Rhetorical Materialism: The Cognitive Division Of Labor And The Social Dimensions Of Argument, Ronald Walter Greene, Heather Ashley Hayes

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Lessons From The Ymca: The Material Rhetoric Of Criticism, Rhetorical Interpretation, And Pastoral Power, Ronald Walter Greene

Ronald Walter Greene

Pastoral Exhibition: The Ymca Motion Picture Bureau And The Transition To 16mm, 1928-39, Ronald Walter Greene

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Arguing With Money: Reasonableness And Change In Citizens United V. Federal Election Commission, Ronald Walter Greene

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Affirming Rhetorical Materialism: Enfolding The Virtual And The Actual, Matthew Bost, Ronald Walter Greene

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Spatial Materialism, Ronald W. Greene

Ronald Walter Greene

Conscientious Objections: Debating Both Sides And The Cultures Of Democracy, Ronald Walter Greene, Darrin Hicks

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Rhetorical Materialism: Rhetorical Subject And General Intellect, Ronald W. Greene

Ronald Walter Greene

Rhetorical Capital: Communicative Labor, Money/Speech, And Neo-Liberal Governance, Ronald Walter Greene

Ronald Walter Greene

Y Movies: Film And The Modernization Of Pastoral Power, Ronald W. Greene

Ronald Walter Greene

Lost Convictions: Debating Both Sides And The Ethical Self Fashioning Of Liberal Subjects, Ronald W. Greene

Ronald Walter Greene

Rhetoric And Capitalism: Rhetorical Agency As Communicative Labor, Ronald W. Greene

Ronald Walter Greene

John Dewey's Eloquent Citizen: Communication, Judgment, And Postmodern Capitalism, Ronald W. Greene

Ronald Walter Greene

Rhetorical Pedagogy As A Postal System: Circulating Subjects Through Michael Warner's "Publics And Counter-Publics", Ronald W. Greene

Ronald Walter Greene

Citizenship In A Global Context: Towards A Future Beginning For A Cultural Studies Inspired Argumentation Theory, Ronald W. Greene

Ronald Walter Greene

Governing Reproduction: Women's Empowerment And Population Policy, Ronald Walter Greene

Ronald Walter Greene

Malthusian Worlds: U.S. Leadership And The Governing Of The Population Crisis, Ronald Walter Greene

Ronald Walter Greene

Another Materialist Rhetoric, Ronald W. Greene

Ronald Walter Greene

Malthusian World(S): Globalization, Race And The American Imaginary In The Immigration Debates Of The Twentieth Century, Ronald Walter Greene

Ronald Walter Greene

On Passionate Reason: Controversy And The Making And Revising Of Context (With Darrin Hicks), Ronald W. Greene

Ronald Walter Greene