The Rhetorical Premiership: A New Perspective on Prime Ministerial Power Since 1945
The Rhetorical Premiership: A New Perspective on Prime Ministerial Power Since 1945
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言辞上的总理：1945年以来总理权力的新视角
DOI：
10.1111/j.1750-0206.2011.00247.x
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发表时间：
2011
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0.2
通讯作者：
R. Toye
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作者：
R. Toye
长期以来，关于英国首相权力的争论，一直过度关注于白厅内部行使的正式控制工具。相比之下，人们对首相在正式和非正式场合使用辞令来维持自己的权力和实现其政策目标的方式却没有给予足够的关注。这里使用的“修辞首相”一词是指自1945年以来，首相们利用公开演讲来扩大其正式权力的一系列方法。在这一时期，尽管有了新技术和声音片段的兴起，固定的演讲仍然一直很重要。然而，议会的措辞发生了一些重要的变化，首相们在下议院之外发表讲话的频率增加了。研究英国首相的历史学家应该向研究美国总统言论的学者学习，尽管在进行比较时必须谨慎。未来对首相修辞的研究应该包括对首相演讲的密切文本分析，但这不应该以牺牲档案资料为代价，从档案资料中可以收集到对演讲过程的重要见解。
The long-standing debate about the power of the British prime minister has focused excessively on formal instruments of control exercised within Whitehall. By contrast, not enough attention has been paid to the ways in which prime ministers use rhetoric, formally and informally, to maintain themselves in power and to achieve their policy aims. The term �rhetorical premiership� is used here to denote the collection of methods by which prime ministers since 1945 have used public speech to augment their formal powers. Set-piece oratory remained consistently important throughout the period, in spite of new technology and the rise of the sound-bite. However, parliamentary rhetoric underwent some important changes, and prime ministers spoke outside the Commons with increased frequency. Historians of the premiership should draw instruction from those scholars who have studied the rhetoric of US presidents, although caution must be exercised when drawing comparisons. Future study of the rhetorical premiership should involve close textual analysis of prime ministerial speeches, but this should not be at the expense of archival sources, from which important insights into the speech-making process can be gleaned.