Political discourse is the verbal interaction between political actors in a policy domain. This article explains the formation of polarized advocacy or discourse coalitions in this complex phenomenon by presenting a dynamic, stochastic, and discrete agent-based model based on graph theory and local optimization. In a series of thought experiments, actors compute their utility of contributing a ...

CDA is an approach to the analysis of language use that, based on the claims of van Dijk(1995), has a social and ideological approach to discourse. Critical discourse analysis gainssignificance particularly with the analysis of political texts considering their role inestablishing force, identity, and political ideology. This study took an initiative criticalperspective towards the rather under...

Political debates are one of the most salient moments an election campaign, where candidates challenged to discuss main contemporary and historical issues in a country. These represent natural ground for argumentative analysis, which has always been employed investigate political discourse structure strategy philosophy linguistics. In this paper, we present DISPUTool 2.0, automated tool relies ...

THE PARADOX At one point during the 1988 campaign, Michael Dukakis was ahead in the public opinion polls by 17 percentage points, but he eventually lost the election by 8 percent. Walter Mondale was ahead in the polls by 4 percent during the 1984 campaign but lost the election in a landslide. During June and July of 1992, Clinton, Bush, and Perot each had turns in the public opinion poll lead. ...

During election campaigns political parties compete to inform voters about their leaders, the issues, and where they stand on these issues. In that sense, election campaigns can be viewed as a particular kind of information campaign. Democratic theory supposes that participatory democracies are better served by an informed electorate rather than an uninformed one. But do all voters make equal i...

In this paper I discuss some of the implications for state education that arise from what I argue is the ambiguous and flexible nature of the term ‘social exclusion’. I briefly consider the conceptual relationship between social exclusion, poverty and deprivation. Using the metaphor of story, I explore the operation of the term in the New Labour project, with particular attention to some of its...

political novel is one of the kinds of persian literature with special factors, which are different from other contemporary story writing styles.  these types of stories are more accommodated with critical discourse analysis (cda) among other methods of novel analyses compared to other types, because of their specificity and unique quality of and their close relations with society and political...

Between 2016 and 2021, in response to calls for a second Scottish independence referendum, two British Prime Ministers—Theresa May Boris Johnson—adopted holding position, at the core of which was “now-is-not-the-time” argumentative scheme. As particular expression strategic ambiguity, this delay discourse intended fulfil specific political function: postpone plebiscite sine die. such, it marked...

We study a model of elections in non-majoritarian systems that captures the link between competition in policies and competition in campaign spending. We argue that the overall competitiveness of the political arena depends both on the endogenous number of parties contesting the election and the endogenous level of campaign spending. These two dimensions are linked together through their combin...

A distinctive feature of Web 2.0 is greater interactivity occurring through electronic forums. Such forms of communication are increasingly playing important roles in ensuring the success of electronic marketplaces, online communities, etc. and therefore, understanding online discourse is critical. We use concepts from the rich tradition of discourse analysis to study these patterns. We note th...