The Evolution of Political Rhetoric

Robert X. Browning is a professor of political science and communication at Purdue University. He is the founder and Executive Director of the C-SPAN Archives that received a George Foster Peabody Award in 2010 for its online Video Library of 250,000 hours of C-SPAN content. He is the author of Politics and Social Welfare Policy in the United States and articles on redistricting. He is the editor of five previous volumes of the Year in C-SPAN Research, all based on conferences held at Purdue University.

FOREWORD PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART 1: A LOOK AT C-SPAN PROGRAMMING WITH ALL ITS "MADISONIAN PASSION", by James A. McCann CHAPTER 1. More Than Partisans: The Role of Identity in the Justice Kavanaugh Hearings, by Nadia E. Brown, Sarah Gershon, and Lauren Hanson-Figueroa CHAPTER 2. Competing and Recurring Narratives: Crafting Credibility in the Hill-Thomas and Ford-Kavanaugh Hearings, by Joseph Sery CHAPTER 3. Partisanship Over Principle: The "Logic" of Congressional Impeachment Inquiries, by Matthew L. Bergbower and Robert Van Sickel PART 2: PORTRAITS OF POLICY DISCOURSE ON C-SPAN, by Janel Jett CHAPTER 4. Careless or Criminal? The Social Construction of Wall Street in the Aftermath of the 2008 Financial Crisis, by Justin Rex CHAPTER 5. Schroedinger's Podium: The Rhetoric of Presidential Campaign Announcements, by Stephen M. Llano and Alexander J. Carver CHAPTER 6. He Said, She Said: How Gender Affects the Tone and Substance of White House Press Briefings, by Newly Paul PART 3: LOOKING FORWARD AND LOOKING BACK AT ANALYSIS OF COMMUNICATION IMPACTS, by Rosalee A. Clawson CHAPTER 7. Americans for Zero Population Growth: Media, Politics, and Public Understandings of Overpopulation, by Caitlin Fendley CHAPTER 8. Is There Anybody Out There? C-SPAN, Women, and the Distribution of Desirable Speech Time, by Bryce J. Dietrich and Jielu Yao CHAPTER 9. For the People Act of 2019: A Framing Analysis of Legislators' Videos on Twitter, by Katelyn E. Brooks ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS INDEX