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Publication details [#51888]

Ivie, Robert L. 2009. American Exceptionalism in a Democratic Idiom: Transacting the Mythos of Change in the 2008 Presidential Campaign. Communication Studies 60 (4) : 359–375.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cooperation | election manifesto | political language | political system | social change

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study explores how the mythos of change in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign articulated a synergic link between American exceptionalism and democracy, thus depolarizing political discourse.