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    The Rhetorical Presidency Made Flesh: A Political Science Classic in the Age of Donald Trump.Charles U. Zug - 2018 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 30 (3):347-368.
    This article revisits Jeffrey Tulis’s The Rhetorical Presidency in the age of Trump, discussing the debates to which it originally responded, its core thesis and empirical evidence, as well as its impact on political science in the last three decades. The article’s second half turns to a recent critique of Tulis’s thesis by Ann C. Pluta, which manifests many of the misunderstandings that have persisted since The Rhetorical Presidency’s original publication. Habits of thought revealed in Pluta’s misunderstandings, I argue, are (...)
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    Diagnosing the Blinding Effects of Trumpism: Rejoinder to Pluta.Charles U. Zug - 2019 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 31 (2):242-254.
    ABSTRACTAnne C. Pluta’s reply to my critique perpetuates the errors that undermined the article I criticized. Pluta dismisses out of hand my suggestion that her mistakes are the result of the particular lens through which she and much of the political science community view the American presidency. Yet this suggestion has the merit of explaining why she contends that piling up nineteenth-century instances of presidential public “speech” undermines Jeffrey Tulis’s contention that the nature of presidential speech changed decisively at the (...)
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