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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Tea Party"”.
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The Paranoid Style of Tea Party Politics
This thesis aims to examine the Tea Party movement from the context of Richard Hofstadter's writings on the paranoid style in American politics. The findings in this study suggest that the Tea Party is something of a paranoid movement, and it suggests that factors for individual paranoid political …
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The Future of the Tea Party: A Comparison of the Progressive (Bull Moose) Party and the Tea Party Movement
The Tea Party Movement (TPM) has emerged as an important player in United States politics by promoting fiscal conservatism, limited government, free market economics, and Constitutionalism. Candidates championing these TPM values have had some successful campaigns, particularly in the 2010 …
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Steeped in Rhetoric: Digital Populism and the Tea Party Movement
… to quantify, one of the binding elements of the Tea Party Movement is Internet Communication Technology, or new media. Social media, online discussion boards, blogs, and other forms of new media constitute a veritable component of the discourse among its members. From the whispering confederation …
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Communicating a centralized message within a decentralized political movement: the Tea Party
… study examines the effectiveness of how well the Tea Party movement has communicated its message to both members and non-members. This research indicates that the present day populist political movement has done an exceptional job informing the public of its goals. While many non-members of the …
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Interpreting Racial Politics: Black and Mainstream Press Web Site Tea Party Coverage
… mainstream press’ online interpretations of the tea party. Little research exists on the modern black press; what does exist shows that unless the story is about race, the black press mirrors the mainstream press. To my knowledge, no research exists comparing the two presses on a racial issue in …
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The Edenton Tea Party, 25 October 1774: A Patriotic Female Community in Revolutionary North Carolina
… of the women who participated in the Edenton Tea Party, which took place in 1774. By examining this important event and the community that supported it, I illuminate the common political and domestic struggles of white women in the American Revolution as well as how they changed. The time …
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Understanding the Tea Party Response to Local Environmental Initiatives: A Conflict Between Individualism and Collectivism
The Tea Party movement became a significant political force in American politics in 2009. Soon after their arrival on the national scale, this movement turned its attention to environmental policymaking. In particular, it spurred a strong opposition to local sustainable development initiatives. …
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Patriotic Protest, Racist Revolt, or Just Another Event: Television News Framing of the Tea Party Movement
… movements. The conservative, pro-capitalist Tea Party movement, which began to receive national news coverage in February 2009, provides an opportunity to examine the same types of relationships on the other end of the political spectrum, in order to test generalizability of existing models. …
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Balancing the Scale of Rationality: The Public Memory of the Boston Tea Party and the Transformation of Dissent
… study examines the public memory of the Boston Tea Party as it has been appropriated for political purposes throughout history. First, I examine the Boston Tea Party to show that the rhetoric surrounding this protest created a tradition of American dissent in which dissenters created a balance …
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Reading the tea leaves : the Tea Party movement, the conservative establishment and the collapse of climate change legislation
The Tea Party movement, which derives its name and revolutionary zeal from the 1773 Boston Tea Party anti-tax protest, emerged in response to the Obama Administration's economic stimulus package and later coalesced around opposition to universal health care, union collective bargaining rights, and …
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Tea Parties of Ohio: An In Depth Look
An in depth look at the rise of the Tea Party in Ohio. With the use of eight interviews of members of different Tea Parties throughout the state, this thesis analyzes different aspects of the Tea Party and compares it to claims made by the national movement. Among other areas it explores Tea Party …
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Media Portrayals Of Political Spouse's Communication On The Campaign Trail: A Content Analysis
… a reciprocating influence, the emergence of the Tea Party.</p> <p>The influence of the Tea Party resulted in relatively few incumbents on general election ballots and greater scrutiny of Tea Party candidates in the newsmagazine articles. This in turn resulted in no spousal communication events …
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Environmentalism and Environmental Constitutional Ballot Initiatives in Florida: The Elements of Support for Amendment One in 2014 in the Context of Current Environmental Attitudes.
… in levels of environmental support nationally by party, Tea Party attitudes, ideology, and certain demographic characteristics. For Floridians, the differences between the most pro-environmental respondents and the most anti-environmental are narrower; partisan identification itself is not …
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Moral Majorities: The Rhetoric of “Real” American Values in Contemporary Conservatism
… explores how public figures associated with the Tea Party movement used rhetoric to create and perpetuate ideas about who "real" Americans are, what they believe, and how they should act. I analyze books by Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Glenn Beck, and Jenny Beth Martin to demonstrate how they …
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Without Content: Rhetoric, American Anarchism, And The End(s) Of Radical Politics
… Specifically, in light of the contemporary Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements, I develop what I call "anarchic rhetoric," and suggest that rhetoricians, critical theorists, and those on the Left would do well to look beyond the dialectical and State-based models of communicative …
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Created Spaces: Domestic Myth-Making in the Novels of Elizabeth Bowen
… found in the rest of her work. After a day of tea party crashing and convertible cruising, the storybook tiger finds himself in a forest, "not the forest of his dreams. There was no hot sunshine, and the trees were dark because of the rain" (23). "But I do not care", the tiger says,
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Community News Service of the 62nd Montana Legislature
… of anti-federal government and anti-Democratic Party sentiment to win a historic, 68-32 majority in the Montana House of Representatives and gain another seat in the Montana Senate to give it a 28-22 lead. But as much as Republican leadership tried to deny it at the outset of the session, their …
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Community News Service of the 62nd Montana Legislature
… of anti-federal government and anti-Democratic Party sentiment to win a historic, 68-32 majority in the Montana House of Representatives and gain another seat in the Montana Senate to give it a 28-22 lead. But as much as Republican leadership tried to deny it at the outset of the session, their …
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Illegal aliens out! : making sociological sense of the new restrictionist frame
… century, the Minuteman Project and the Tea Party generated renewed interest in restrictionist social movements (RSMs). Sociological social movement theories focused primarily on oppressed populations rather than privileged groups, leaving significant gaps in our understanding of …
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