"Selective Speaking: The New Form of ""Going Public"

Using what is arguably the most pointed and extensive treatment of the audience of minor addresses to date and an illustrative case study, I document a clear increase in the number of speeches by presidents to what I classify as more selective rather than public audiences. In addition to descriptive accounts of this paradigmatic shift in presidential speechmaking, negative binomial regression and multinomial logit models identify leading conditions that influence both the frequency and choice of speeches to various audience types, particularly selective audiences. The study concludes with a discussion of the normative implications of the empirical evidence.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Political Science

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Roberts, Brian

Contributors dc:contributor

• Brian Gaines

• Speech Communication

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3455785

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/82589