Truth claims in political discourse are implicated in a dialogic process whereby political actors "assimilate, rework, and re-accentuate" prior discourse (Bakhtin 1986:89). While political actors themselves may view truth as an object to be discovered, I argue that discourse analysts are best served by viewing truth as an emergent property of this dialogic process. In this paper, I examine how ...

Political advertising has changed drastically over the last several decades with video advertising becoming a major force in all outlets from the traditional TV medium to online media. In this work, we attempt to automatically classify the political advertisements along various dimensions such as purpose, content and emotion. First, we use a crowd-sourcing method to annotate the political adver...

The debate surrounding the impact of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) has focused largely on congressional campaigns, and the role of soft money and issue advocacy in them. It has largely (and to some extent deliberately) ignored presidential campaigns. Ironically, BCRA’s most immediate impact may be on presidential politics, beginning with the 2004 election cycle. Four aspects...

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Two types of democracy, majoritarian and consensus, are first discussed. The majoritarian principle is typically embodied in parliamentary systems, by the combination of the single-member district plurality (majority) system, the two-party system, and single-party cabinets; and in presidential systems by presidential domination over the parliament. Consensus democracies are based on the princip...

What are the different rhetorical approaches presidents used to address minority health inequality? More importantly, how have the efforts of presidents impacted minorities' perceptions of health? I offer a historical perspective that describes the three major periods of presidential engagement in discussions of minority health since the 1960s. I couple this historical overview with an empirica...

The study examines the presidential campaign manifestos of Presidents Muhammadu Buhari Federal Republic Nigeria in 2015 and Donald Trump United States America 2016. Specifically, it sets out to analyse these presidents’ speech promises on security using cooperative principle, ascertain conformity their job creation theory principle. also examine two health care Using secondary source as method ...

The research hypothesizes that the American 2020 Presidential debate participants used recurrent interruptions as a communicative strategy to gain more power on floor and win voters' support. form of political interaction (televised debates) also affected candidates' speech behavior in way it added another participant (the general public) discussion; result, an institutionally controlled discou...

up to that fact that the Founders retained elements of monarchy and prerogative in the Constitution, to be invoked during crises (genuine or staged). Second, all three books essentially tell a top-down story about the power play between the three federal branches, but they barely discuss the institutional balance of power, which is itself a result of public opinion, and, in particular, the dist...