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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Tea Party Movement"”.
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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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Patriotic Protest, Racist Revolt, or Just Another Event: Television News Framing of the Tea Party Movement
… the relationships between mass media and social movements has focused largely on the ways in which newspapers and mainstream television networks represent leftist movements. The conservative, pro-capitalist Tea Party movement, which began to receive national news coverage in February 2009, …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …