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Campaigning for authenticity
<p>In the fall of 1976 Jimmy Carter wanted to be "an American President... who is not isolated from our people, but a President who feels your pain and who shares your dreams." With humble, hopeful, homey images of Plains, Georgia, campaign advertisements sold Carter as a fresh-off-the-farm, …
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Third Sector Campaigning Strategies: A study of Third Sector Organisations campaigning for the reform of UK child poverty policy
… used by Third Sector Organisations (TSOs) in campaigning for the reform of UK child poverty policy. This qualitative study combines expert interviews with policy workers in campaigning TSOs with textual analysis of TSO submissions to a 2007/08 Work and Pensions Select Committee inquiry into …
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Cyberactivism in a non-democratic context : social campaigning in Saudi Arabia
There has been a growing literature concerning the role of online technologies in fostering collective action in democratic countries (Bennett and Segerberg, 2012, 2013; Bimber et al., 2005). However, studies in non-democratic settings have tended to focus on high profile but often relatively …
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The New Frontier: An Analysis of Effective New Media Political Communications and Campaigning
<p>Objectives: In the age of new media communication, politics has taken a swift turn as the Internet lends itself to quicker and less expensive contact. Politicians in all realms have adopted its communicative aspects in many forms as a means of promoting themselves and staying in contact with …
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Encouraging exclusivity: The electoral system and campaigning in the 1999 South African Election
This dissertation provides an analysis of the 1999 election campaign and considers how each of the main parties appealed to the politically salient groups in South Africa. The case is put forward that the electoral system--closed-list proportional representation-rewards parties that appeal to a …
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Campaigning With Television: The Speaking of Senator Paul H. Douglas in the 1954 Campaign
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T22:51:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0013470.pdf: 21874361 bytes, checksum: cc18940b0714ffa20d0fa004ced55a85 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1955
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The Palestine Education Initiative: A Case Study on Campaigning, Development Education and Activism in Ireland
This thesis examines the relationship between campaigning, activism and development education in Ireland using Participatory Action Research (PAR) as its research method. It examines the establishment of The Palestine Education Initiative, formerly the education sector of the Ireland Palestine …
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Dialogue and Resistance. An Evaluation of Two Approaches to Peace Campaigning at RAF Molesworth (1980-1987)
… in various forms of nonviolent direct action a campaigning group could win over, or convert, even the hardest opponent to their cause. He also suggested that strict adherence to a discipline of nonviolence was necessary if such a group was to wield sufficient political power to coerce their …
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Marketisation and professionalisation of campaigning of political parties in the new democracy: an investigation of the structural conditions and factors that determined the development of marketization and professionalization of campaigning of the Indonesian political parties in the Post-Soeharto New Order.
… the marketisation and professionalisation of campaigning of political parties. More specifically, it attempts to provide a systematic understanding of the structural conditions and factors that determine such developments in a new democracy. The following propositions commence this study. In …
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Campaigning for Real Beauty or Reinforcing Social Norms? An Analysis of the Correlation of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty and Advertisements in Fashion Magazines
Since 2004, the Dove personal care product brand has received much praise for widening the definition and discussion of beauty through the use of nontraditional models in its <italic>Campaign for Real Beauty<italic> advertisements. This study examined the content of the <italic>Campaign for Real …
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Three essays in applied microeconomic theory
… 2 analyzes the dynamics of positive and negative campaigning in primary and general elections, characterizing the strategic considerations that influence campaigning choices. Candidates devote resources to positive campaigning, which builds their reputation stocks, and to negative campaigning, …
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Going Negative in the Era of the Super PAC and Social Media: Negative Political Communication in the United States on Television and Facebook
… to attacking their opponents, and so negative campaigning stands on the precipice of becoming a billion dollar industry in the United States. The casual observer might therefore feel justified in assuming that such a means of political communication is an effective campaign strategy. As the …
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African Politics in the Digital Age: A Study of Political Party-Social Media Campaign Strategies in Ghana
… actors, organisations and reorient political campaigning environments. In Africa, it is important to ask in specific contexts how the new technologies are reconfiguring the relationship between the rulers and the ruled, between politicians and the electorate. In particular, how has digital …
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Newspaper campaigns, publics and politics
This thesis examines the practice of campaigning journalism, where a newspaper seeks political influence and claims to do so on behalf of its readers or a wider public. It is a production and content study of campaign journalism in the Scottish press, examining the journalists’ orientation to their …
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Coalition-Building and the Fight for Universal Child Care in Ontario, Canada, 1981-2022
… justify child care reform and the OCBCC in its campaigning for a public child care system. I found that although the OCBCC campaigned for reforms that benefitted low-income racialized families, including campaigning for expanding child care subsidies, the OCBCC did not engage in more explicit …
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Essays on Political Economy
… In chapter 1, a theoretical model of informative campaigning, both positive and negative, is developed. It is argued that some information on a candidate can be transmitted more efficiently by his opponents and the negative campaigning, on average, facilitates a more informed choice by the …
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SOCIAL MEDIA IN POST-SOVIET SPACE: SERVING TO AUTOCRACY OR SIMULATING DISSENT?
… studying online disinformation and politicians' campaigning strategies in digital space. The third paper delves into the mobilisation potential of new technologies by analysing the driving forces of digitally-enabled uprisings. I collect data from two platforms: Facebook and Telegram, and analyse …
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Three essays in political economy
… chapter studies the effectiveness of negative campaigning. In the next three paragraphs, I summarize these three chapters With the advent of internet, many U.S. metropolitan areas have seen newspaper closures due to declining revenues. This provides the researcher with an opportunity to analyze …
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