Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-251) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- The role of rhetoric in the formation of policy -- Economic insecurity and its rhetorical consequences -- The building of conservatives' intellectual capacity -- The move to economic arguments by conservative intellectuals -- The rhetorical adaptations of the Republican Party -- Democrats and the long shadow of deficit politics -- The republicans' electoral edge on the economy -- The broad reach and future prospects of economic rhetoric.
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