Partisan Patriotism in the American Presidency: American Exceptionalism, Issue Ownership, and the Age of Trump.
This study employs issue ownership theory to examine the partisan dynamics surrounding the idea of American exceptionalism in presidential discourse. We conducted a content analysis of invocations of American exceptionalism in all major U.S. presidential addresses—domestic and foreign—from the end o...
| Publicado en: | Mass Communication & Society Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 389 - 417 |
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