{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-of-character-assassination-and-reputation-management-9781138556584","title":"Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn modern politics as well as in historical times, character attacks abound. Words and images, like symbolic and psychological weapons, have sullied or destroyed numerous reputations. People mobilize significant material and psychological resources to defend themselves against such attacks. How does character assassination work, and when does it not? Why do many targets fall so easily when they are under character attack? How can one prevent attacks and defend against them?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eRoutledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management\u003c\/em\u003e offers the first comprehensive examination of character assassination. Moving beyond studying corporate reputation management and how public figures enact and maintain their reputation, this lively volume offers a framework and cases to help understand, critically analyze, and effectively defend against such attacks. Written by an international and interdisciplinary team of experts, the book begins with a theoretical introd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Character assassination is poisoning our civil discourse. The editors have created a book that is essential reading for citizens who must learn how to tell truth from fiction. This book will help guide us on how to handle this issue in the future.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDonna Brazile\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e, Democratic Strategist, Former Chairwoman, Democratic National Committee and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is an excellent educational and scientifically sound guide to studying character assassination and reputation management. The team of editors gathered research, insights, and a wide range of cases from prominent scholars across the world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNancy Snow\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e, Professor Emeritus at California State University, Fullerton and Pax Mundi Professor of Public Diplomacy at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Japan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is an extremely valuable resource tool that provides a wealth of valuable data, theory, and analysis illustrating how personal attack arguments work as powerful public relations tools in many fields and settings.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDouglas Walton\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric, University of Windsor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This handbook\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis a testimony of how common the information misuse has become, greatly assisted by cyber-possibilities and the increasingly un-governable societies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlena Ledeneva\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e, Professor of Politics and Society, University College London, Founder of the UCL Global Informality Project\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Most Handbooks are dutiful efforts to cover well-known fields, with deference to the major figures and ideas. The best, in contrast, help to define emerging fields, providing theory, language, exemplary cases, and methods for studying an aspect of reality that has previously been out of sight. The \u003ci\u003eRoutledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management\u003c\/i\u003e is in the latter category, putting the topic of character assassination (CA) firmly on the intellectual map through its diverse, sweeping, and often entertaining essays.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJournal of Applied Social Theory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I: The Theory of CA and Reputation Management. \u003c\/b\u003e1 Character Assassination: Theoretical Framework. 2 Inoculation Theory Against\/As Character Assassination.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e3 The Traumatic Psychological Impact of Character Attacks on Targets\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e4 Character Assassination as a Structurational Phenomenon\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e5 Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Character Assassination\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II: National and International Dynamics. \u003c\/b\u003e6 Character Attacks on Dutch Revolutionary Adam Gerard Mappa (1754–1828)\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e7 Character Assassination in the Soviet Union and Russia. 8 Character Assassination of Activists in Egypt: ElBaradei as a Target\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e9 Character Assassination and the Contemporary Anti-Corruption Campaign in the Chinese Military\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e10 Character Attacks by Dutch Populist Radical Right Leader Geert Wilders\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e11 \u003ci\u003eAd Hominem \u003c\/i\u003eAttacks in Greek Politics: The Case of the 2015 Referendum\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e12 The Role of Propaganda in the Character Assassination of World Leaders in International Affairs\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III: Individual and Collective Targets. \u003c\/b\u003e13 Agrippina, Theodora and Fredegund as Evil Empresses in the Historiographic Tradition\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e14 The Character Assassination of Marie-Antoinette: Defamation in the Age of the French Revolution\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e15 \u003ci\u003eArgumentum ad Carricare \u003c\/i\u003eas a Mode of Character Attack: Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump on \u003ci\u003eSaturday Night Live. \u003c\/i\u003e16 Corporate Character Assassination and Crisis Communication\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e17 Country Reputation Assassination during the Greek Memorandum Re-Negotiations\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART IV: Strategies of Attack and Defence. \u003c\/b\u003e18 The Fight for Public Opinion and \u003ci\u003eMemoria \u003c\/i\u003ein the Early Roman Principate\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e19 The Rhetorical and Ethical Implications of Character Assassination in the Age of McCarthy\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e20 Character Assassination and the Nixon White House\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e21 Character Assassination and Persuasive Attack on CBS’s \u003ci\u003eFace the Nation. \u003c\/i\u003e22 \u003ci\u003eReductio ad Hitlerum \u003c\/i\u003eas a New Frame for Political and Geopolitical Conflicts\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e23 Show Trials in Communist Countries: Psychology of the Ultimate Cases of Character Assassination\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART V: The Cultures of Emergent Media. \u003c\/b\u003e24 Character Assassination in Reformation Propaganda\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e25 Late-Night TV Humor and the Culture of Ridicule\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e26 Character Assassins and Moral Entrepreneurs: Social Media and the Regulation of Morality\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e27 Psychological Traits of Character Assassins: Studies in Cyber-Aggression\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e28 Character Assassination as Scapegoating: The Dentist Who Killed Cecil the Lion\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e29 Character Assassination by Memes: Mosquitos versus Elephants\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eConclusions and Future Research.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577827234135,"sku":"9781138556584","price":199.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138556584.jpg?v=1746096871","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/routledge-handbook-of-character-assassination-and-reputation-management-9781138556584","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}