Description: Studies of Communication in the 2020 Presidential Campaign explores a wide range of communication elements, themes, and topics of the 2020 presidential election. Each chapter serves as a stand-alone study focusing on the role and function of communication within the context of...
Brief description: Ben Voth is professor of rhetoric and director of debate and speech programs at Southern Methodist University, USA. His latest book is An Invitation to Debate: Reasoning and Argument as a Framework for Civil Society. As a collegiate speech and debate director he has coached more than five world champions, more than thirty national champions, and more than fifty state champions in speech and debate competitions over the past thirty years. He is also the author of Rwanda Rising: Debate as an Empowering International Pedagogy and The Rhetoric of Genocide: Death as a Text, as well as co-author with Robert E. Denton of Social Fragmentation and the Decline of American Democracy: The End of the Social Contract.
Review Quotes: "Bob Denton has done it again. With every election cycle he brings together stronger and stronger examinations of communication in the campaign context. The election of 2020 in many ways challenged our democratic system, and in this examination of that momentous election Denton's contributors push our own understanding of the limits and efficacy of political communication. Like it's predecessors, this book is a must have for any scholar interested in politics or political communication." --Joseph M. Valenzano III, University of Dayton