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Democracy's Minor Problem: Communication and Third-Party Politics
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| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | Democracy's Minor Problem: Communication and Third-Party Politics. |
| 개인저자 | Hughes, Ceri. |
| 단체저자명 | The University of Wisconsin - Madison. Mass Communications - LS. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: The University of Wisconsin - Madison., 2019. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019. |
| 형태사항 | 284 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 80-12A. Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9781392298145 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2019. |
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Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12, Section: A.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis. Advisor: Wagner, Michael. |
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| 요약 | This dissertation is a study of communicative practices by, and about, minor political parties. Minor parties are often considered irrelevant to electoral outcomes, that is why voters ignore them, that is why media ignores them, that is why the academic literature on them is relatively scarce. This dissertation fills some of that final gap. This work demonstrates that traditional conceptions of relevance, wedded to potential administrative influence, are outdated and need to consider relevance in a wider context. The biggest political change to happen in recent U.K. political history-the decision to leave the EU (possibly)-was engendered, in part at least, by UKIP, a party which would be labeled "irrelevant" by usual standards.This dissertation includes three empirical examinations of minor parties. Each of these chapters are discrete investigations on different minor parties across two countries. A two-year ethnography of a state level Green Party concludes that the anti-partyist practices and platform of the party in combination with the party's focus on a fundamental intersectional core tenet of the party may be inimical to attracting the exact type of support they seek to grow as a party and become more politically relevant. The other two empirical chapters use content analysis of both news releases by the Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW) and UKIP, and newspaper coverage of the parties. Differing conclusions are reached as to the level of consonance between what they say about themselves and what the newspapers report about the parties.This works also contributes to communication theory by inviting a reconsideration of conceptions of "elite." Eliteness can be temporal, issue-associated, geographically bound and removable. This has clear implications for communications theories which include conceptions of eliteness such as framing, agenda-setting and gatekeeping.The election of Donald Trump and the vote for the U.K. to leave the EU, represent a large rejection of politics-as-normal by large swathes of the electorate. Voters seem to be expressing an appetite for something new-third parties, almost by definition, are something new to try and therefore must be considered of increasing import by the public, the media and academia. |
| 일반주제명 | Journalism. Mass communications. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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