scholarly journals Introduction to the special issue: Rhetorical approaches to contemporary political studies

Politics ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 026339572110502
Author(s):  
Sophia Hatzisavvidou ◽  
James Martin
Keyword(s):  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Speech ◽  
Political Studies ◽  
Established Democracies ◽  
Rhetorical Methods

This article introduces the special issue on Rhetorical Approaches to Contemporary Political Studies. It underscores the importance of innovations in political speech as a key to the continuing attraction of scholars to rhetorical methods. This is particularly relevant at a moment of crisis and disruption in established democracies when the parameters of acceptable discourse have been brought into question by forms of ‘post-truth’ politics. Although controversial, such efforts affirm the value of rhetorical analysis as a mode of political enquiry. The article then sketches the arguments of the contributions to the issue.

scholarly journals Introduction: Populist constitutionalism: Varieties, complexities, and contradictions

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Blokker ◽  
Bojan Bugaric ◽  
Gábor Halmai
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Union Member ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Constituent Power ◽  
Constitutional Politics ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Established Democracies ◽  
European Union Member States ◽  
Fundamental Values

AbstractThe intense engagement of populists with constitutionalism—a phenomenon originally related to experiences in Latin America—is increasingly evident in some of the new European Union member states. But the populist phenomenon is clearly not confined to more recently established democracies. Populist constitutionalism stands for a number of distinctive tendencies in constitutional politics and practices which frequently are in tension with—and may even threaten—fundamental values, human rights, representative democracy, and the rule of law. The relation between populism and constitutionalism is, however, not necessarily one of anti-thesis, but rather manifests itself in distinctive ways, depending on specific contexts and variations. In this special issue, we argue that populist constitutionalism is best analyzed in a comparative, and historically and contextually attuned manner. The special issue wants to contribute to understandings of populist constitutionalism, which are both theoretically more robust and able to comparatively reflect on a diversity of “really existing” cases. The various contributions discuss central dimensions to the populist phenomenon. These pertain in particular to: (a) The varieties of populist engagement with constitutionalism; (b) a deeper understanding of the populist mindset; (c) the position-taking and reaction of constitutional scholars to populism; (d) the complex relation and overlap of populism with illiberalism and authoritarianism; and (e) the central nature of constituent power in populist projects.

Japanese Political Studies and Japanese International Relations in China, Japan, and Korea

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-289
Author(s):  
KEISUKE IIDA
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Japanese Politics ◽  
The Third ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
Political Studies ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis article summarizes the findings of this special issue focusing on five questions: (1) who studies Japanese politics and international relations in China, Japan and the Republic of Korea?; (2) what is being studied in each of these countries?; 3) how are Japanese politics studied in each of these countries?; (3) what determines the nature of the study of Japanese politics and international relations?; and 4) what is the impact of the study of Japanese politics in each of these three countries? The findings on the first questions are that most scholars in each of these countries are concentrated in their forties and fifties, but their educational backgrounds are considerably varied. On the second question, the topics of study are becoming more wide-ranging in recent years, although in China, government policy still puts a constraint on the range of topics studied. Regarding the third question, the approaches that are used are becoming more varied, especially in Japan and South Korea. Concerning the fourth question, domestic politics in each of these countries matter, and financial constraints are a problem in China. Finally, it seems that Korean scholars in this area may have greater impact on the government than in the other two countries.

Populism in the era of Twitter: How social media contextualized new insights into an old phenomenon

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 585-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Homero Gil de Zúñiga ◽  
Karolina Koc Michalska ◽  
Andrea Römmele
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Emerging Democracies ◽  
Media Society ◽  
Established Democracies ◽  
Political Realm

With the advent of social media, political communication scholars have systematically revised theories and empirical corollaries revolving media use and democracy at large. Interestingly, in about the same period of time, a reinvigorated political populism trend has taken place across different latitudes in the world. This widespread populist movement has expanded regardless of whether these political systems were established democracies, emerging democracies, or societies immersed in political contexts at peril. This essay serves as the introductory piece to a special issue on populism. First, it highlights the ways in which “populism,” being an old phenomenon, has further transpired into the political realm in the era of social media. Second, the essay seeks to better contextualize what populism is and how it has developed within today’s hybrid media society. Finally, this introduction also lays out the ground to six central theoretical and data-driven papers that encapsulate many of the important issues revolving the phenomenon of populism today.

scholarly journals Taking risks and breaking new frontiers: introduction to the Special Issue and the cardinal challenges for policy and politics scholarship

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Berglund ◽  
Claire A. Dunlop ◽  
Christopher M. Weible
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

This Special Issue makes a statement about the study of policy and politics, where it has been, how it is done, what it is, and where it is going. When addressing the question ‘who gets to speak for our discipline?’ we respond emphatically – many people, from many places, working in many ways. It comprises scholarship that has rarely been combined to explore some cardinal challenges about our scholarship: (1) How do we conceive of policy and political studies? (2) To what extent should our science be ‘normative’ or ‘objective’ or ‘positive’? (3) Who are our audiences, and how do we engage them? (4) Whose knowledge matters, and how does it accumulate? (5) How should we advance the study of policy and politics? We conclude charging the field to consider different ways of thinking about what we can discover and construct in the world and how we can conduct our science.

scholarly journals Italy in times of protest and negative voting: An introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Diego Garzia ◽  
Gianluca Passarelli
Keyword(s):  
Party Identification ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Voting Behaviour ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Behaviour ◽  
Peculiar Form ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Empirical Point ◽  
Established Democracies ◽  
The Impact

The classic heuristics of voting behaviour have been eroded overtime especially in well-established democracies. Ideology, party identification, and social class have been gradually replaced by short-period factors. In particular, the personalization has represented an innovative variable that significantly contributes to explain voting behaviour. Cross-pressures between party identification, candidate assessments and issue preferences paved the way to the diffusion of protest voting, both against the élite and the system. In this respect, Italy represents a very interesting case from both a theoretical and an empirical point view considering the presence of protest parties and the important diffusion of anti-system movements which surfed the protest to consolidate their positions. The editors conceived this special issue aiming at analysing and measuring the impact of protest/negative voting in Italy between 2016 and 2020, a period in which protest parties and voters’ discontent have significantly increased. Data presented by the different papers confirm, albeit under different perspectives, the relevance of this peculiar form of political behaviour. 

scholarly journals RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF PRESIDENT TRUMP POLITICAL SPEECH IN PALM BEACH, FLORIDA ON JANUARY 3RD, 2020 ON THE KILLING OF QASSEM SOLEIMANI

CALL ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reski Amaliah Haming ◽  
Jumharia Djamereng
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
Political Speech ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Classical Principle ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This research analyzes rhetoric which is uttered by President Trump in his political speech in Palm Beach, Florida on January 2020 on the killing of Qassem Soleimani. The analysis involves its context, arguments, and also the effects caused by his speech. The research method used is descriptive qualitative method. The data were taken from the video, the transcript of the speech and the news related to the speech. Martin theory (2014) of rhetorical analysis on political speech and Cicero`s theory in Aristotle (2008) of the classical principle of rhetoric are used to analyze the data. The research results are the rhetorical context of President Trump`s speech is to respond and clarify the killing of Qassem Soleimani; and the accusation of started a war, thus the rhetorical argument shows that the speech used all the classical principle of rhetoric and the rhetorical effect of the speech is escalating the tension in the region. 

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