The Strategy of Rhetoric: Campaigning for the American Constitution

By William H. Riker

Book Overview

This book, the last work of an eminent political scientist, is an innovative study of political persuasion during the 1787-88 campaign to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Employing historical and rational choice analysis to examine the rhetoric and strategic maneuvers the victorious Federalists used, William H. Riker develops new tools and approaches to advance the science of political campaigns.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300061692
• ISBN13: 9780300061697
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"