A01=Thomas Moriarty
and Government: Comparative Politics
Author_Thomas Moriarty
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Politics
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- ISBN 9781567506686
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 2003
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The author accounts for South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy from a rhetorical perspective. Based on an exhaustive analysis of hundreds of public statements made by South Africa's leaders from 1985 to the present, Moriarty shows how key constructions of the political scene paved the way for negotiations, elections, and national reconciliation. These rhetorical changes moved South Africa out of the realm of violent conflict and into one of rhetorical conflict, a democratic space in which the country could resolve its problems at the negotiating table and in the ballot box.
THOMAS A. MORIARTY teaches rhetoric and writing at Salisbury University in Maryland.
