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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"representative claims"”.
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Rethinking Rhetoric: An investigation of political persuasion online. A case study of Mauritian electoral interviews livestreamed on Facebook
… content analysis was conducted on candidates' representative claims (see Saward, 2006) and the viewertariat responses to these claims. This study finds that candidates employ a self-centred rhetoric, focusing on their ‘candidateness' rather than their representativeness, which, this study …
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"""By the people"": representative literature and democratic representation in the United States, 1890-1930"
… to represent the sovereign people hinge on the representative claims of the literary forms they employ: Garland’s regionalist writing promised a new understanding of rural subjects and a renovated ideal of literary culture through careful observation and recording; Lindsay’s bardic poetry hoped …
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Speak to me only with thine ayes? The representativeness of professional EU advocacy groups
… engages in an institutionalised dialogue with representative EU advocacy groups. However, one important strand of interest group scholars argues that as a result of recognition, groups professionalise and lose their representativeness. They argue that as a result the positions put forward by EU …
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Care and Political Representation: Exploring the Challenges of Contemporary Representative Democracy with an Account of Democratic Care Ethics
… typologies of representation and incorporates representative claims-making into the meaning of “democratic”; and it distils insights from care ethics to express the idea of caring representative democracies. The first of the two moves hinges on the identification of a uniqueness to democratic …
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Fictions of Authority: The Normativity of Representation after Shakespeare
<p>The core claims of this study are that dramatic and political practice mutually depend on rich concepts of mimesis––of exemplary images and formative imitation––for their coherence; that the seventeenth century bears witness to a gradual and intricate impoverishment of these concepts; and that …