The Presidency and Immigration Policy: Rhetoric and Reality

This book explores how presidents use public rhetoric to shape immigration policy and leadership, offering new insights into rhetorical analysis. It highlights the importance of the president in leading the national policy agenda on key policy issues and illustrates differences in presidential style and language while showing a continuity in immigration policy failure.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 266 pages
Publication date: 17 November 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This groundbreaking book brings together presidential leadership, immigration policy, and political communication for the first time, offering students in three different arenas new insights into rhetorical analysis. It illustrates a significant, but previously understudied aspect of presidential leadership through public rhetoric, showing how crucial the president is in leading the national policy agenda on key policy issues. It adds to the larger "going public" literature by extending our understanding of the presidents public commentary to an investigation of immigration policy. It links two relatively disparate research agendas: research focused on the presidency and immigration policy scholarship. Vividly illustrating differences in presidential style and language while at the same time showing a continuity in immigration policy failure, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the intersection of these three critical areas.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032293554