Sir James Lowther and the Political Tactics of the Cumberland Election of 1768

1983 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-127
Author(s):  
R. B. Levis
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Political Tactics

scholarly journals Mobility, Connectivity and Non-Resident Citizenship: Migrant Social Media Campaigns in the Irish Marriage Equality Referendum

Sociology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 634-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
Breda Gray
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
The Political ◽  
Marriage Equality ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
Political Tactics

The proliferation of migrant social media campaigns calling for a ‘Yes’ vote in the Irish Marriage Equality referendum (May 2015) raises new questions about the conventions of political participation and non-resident citizenship rights. Via a discourse analysis of these campaigns, this article shows how the algorithmic agency of social media combines with the political agency and affective identifications of campaigners to shape the terms of non-resident citizen claims for enfranchisement and sexual citizenship rights. The article argues that despite their novel political tactics, the central campaign discourses of (im)mobility (leaving/staying-put), connectivity (active engagement) and ongoing stake in an inclusive homeland are underpinned by conventional democratic criteria for enfranchisement. The article addresses how these discourses intersect with state and business regimes of mobility and connectivity to produce a particular ordering of citizenship. It also points to those emergent practices and norms of political participation generally, and of non-resident citizenship in particular, that are foregrounded by these campaigns.

scholarly journals E-4 Political and Diplomatic Strategies of World Leaders and the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) (An Analytical Study)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Sohail Akhtar ◽  
Abdul Razaq
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Study ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human History ◽  
Political Tactics ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Status ◽  
First Time

Allah Almighty sent Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) as the last Prophet for the guidance of humanity. But sent Him as a model for human being in all discipline of life. The life of the prophet was a real example for the entire mankind in the all discipline of life. Whether he is a teacher or as a commander, as a ruler or as a head of the family, as a preacher or as a judge, no one seems second to you. In the same way, like other matters, he also gave guidance in political matters. For the first time in human history, truth was made a part of politics. The Prophet (peace be upon him) is the only person in history whose every action has been considered as the source of growth and guidance for humanity. Not only is there an example for people in every aspect of the Prophet's life, but the secret of success lies in following him. Like other aspects of life, where the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) has the status of a king and a general and a conqueror, he is the founder of an Islamic state. As the ruler of the state of Madinah, the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) used all the political strategies necessary for the management and administration of the state. This research paper highlights the political tactics and strategy of the Prophet (peace be upon him) as world best politician.

scholarly journals THE DON MENSHEVIKS ORGANIZATIONS IN THE CONDITIONS OF WORLD WAR I: THE SOURCE STUDY REVIEW OF MATERIALS

2016 ◽  
pp. 57-61
Author(s):  
T. V. Schukina ◽  
S. G. Voskoboynikov
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Tactics ◽  
The World ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Source Study ◽  
First Time

The paper provides the review of the known bases of sources and new documents and archival materials on the history of the Don Mensheviks organizations in the conditions of World War I. Special attention is given to the analysis of the party periodicals being the most valuable source, giving representation about the number of the Mensheviks organizations, their social base, the forms and methods of party struggle and activity. Features of the archival materials available in the central and regional archives in the context of the research topic are considered. For the first time in the regional historiography of the Mensheviks party, the authors introduce a numbers of archival documents, allowing to study the political tactics, the dynamics of quantitative and a social composition of the Mensheviks organizations in the Don area in the conditions of the World War I.

The Consolations of Imagination and Lyric Poetry

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rivkah Zim
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Dissent ◽  
Political Messages ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Political Tactics ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Prison Camp

This chapter explores the personal and the political tactics of two remarkable, yet little-known, twentieth-century poets—Joean Cassou and Irina Ratushinskaya—who survived their imprisonments in life-threatening conditions and emerged from confinement to find that their prison poetry had been published and circulated widely, carrying political messages that went beyond their authors' initial situations and declared purposes of resistance and self-preservation. Cassou's thirty-three sonnets are signs of a private inner world that enabled him to resist the psychological pressures of his imprisonment during the winter of 1941–42. By contrast, Ratushinskaya set out to speak for a group of women political prisoners in the last years of the Soviet Union. She used her poetry to sustain the group's morale and willpower to resist the lies and cruelty of their oppressors who controlled the prison camp in which they were interned for various kinds of political dissent.

scholarly journals George W. Bush and the Reckoning of American Conservatism

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 291-309
Author(s):  
Leonard J. Moore
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
American Conservatism ◽  
Political Tactics ◽  
Political Dominance ◽  
Modern Conservatism ◽  
To Come ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
2004 Election

Immediately after the 2004 election, Republicans confidently believed in continued conservative political dominance. Shortly, a string of political and administrative disasters shattered the Bush presidency, and crises yet to come further devastated the political fortunes of American conservatism. Bush’s failures as president, while highly significant, only partially explained the conservative collapse. The deeper cause lay in the long-term weakness of conservative policies and political tactics. An examination of two key aspects of modern conservatism, conservative populism and opposition to government activism, shows that the collapse came primarily because of Bush’s loyalty to entrenched, mainstream conservative ideas and policies that were unrealistic and destined to fail.

scholarly journals Political Authority in Vietnam: Is The Vietnamese Communist Party a Paper Leviathan?

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Fforde ◽  
Lada Homutova
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
State Capacity ◽  
Thomas Hobbes ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Political Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Contracts ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Political Tactics ◽  
Party State

In a contribution to the political analysis of contemporary Vietnam – a single-party state often wrongly assumed to be an author of reform and deploying considerable and varied powers – this paper seeks to provide an understanding of the Vietnamese term ‘authority’ ( uy) and its relationship to power. Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan serves as a reference to the notion of authority in Vietnam and is compared to data: what the Vietnamese thought their word best translated as authority meant. The paper concludes that in the ‘two-way street’ of social contracts, the ruling Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) actually has little authority. This helps to explain the chronic problems the VCP has faced in securing state capacity and generalised ability to implement policy. It highlights gaps between the current anachronistic use of Soviet-style power in Vietnam and what could be done if the regime deployed new powers based on authority. The authors conclude that, given the identified lack of authority, the VCP is no real Leviathan. Although more research is needed, this conclusion implies that proactive political tactics in Vietnam may move towards a search for acquiring authority in a ‘two-way street’ relationship within the Vietnamese political community. Enhanced state capacity and Party authority could follow.

Beyond Conspiracy and Coordinated Ascendancy: Revisiting Caste Question in West Bengal under the Left Front Rule (1977–2011)

2021 ◽  
pp. 2455328X2110084
Author(s):  
Ayan Guha
Keyword(s):  
Land Reform ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Unintended Consequence ◽  
Political Support ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Tactics ◽  
Lower Castes ◽  
Left Front

This article has critically engaged with the speculative claim that the disappearance of caste question from public discourse during Left rule in West Bengal was a result of conscious upper-caste ploy to silence articulation of caste interests and tactfully eliminate the possibility of Dalit political assertion. To verify the veracity of this claim, this study has critically scrutinized Left Front’s political mobilization strategy of rural population and also its landmark land reform initiative. The investigation attempted by this article, in this regard, has revealed that there is little to suggest the existence of any organized upper-caste conspiracy. It is, however, true that the articulation and aggregation of political demands along the lines of caste was indeed averted in West Bengal through political tactics and developmental strategies devised by the upper castes. But, the marginalization of the caste question in mainstream politics was an unintended consequence of such political tactics and developmental strategies which were primarily designed with the objective to preserve and enlarge the political support base, rather than to contain the lower castes. Thus, political motives acted as far more important determinants of political and developmental activities rather than any inherent caste bias.

Democratization and the Left

2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 1213-1237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Wong
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Democratic Transition ◽  
New Left ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Specific Mode ◽  
Democratic Reform ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Political Tactics ◽  
Political Scene

This article examines how democratic transition has shaped leftist politics in Taiwan, South Korea, Brazil, and Chile. On one hand, the new left has positioned itself differently in the two regions, specifically in terms of when the left emerged (or reemerged) onto the political scene and how it has organized politically. On the other hand, new left forces in both regions have moderated their political tactics and ideological demands. This article contends that the new left has had to adapt to new political contexts. Divergence in new left politics can be explained by variations in the pacing of democratic reform, the institutional basis of democratic breakthrough, and salient cleavage structures. Yet the imperatives of democratic competition—irrespective of the specific mode of transition—have compelled the new left in both regions to similarly moderate their political tactics and transformative demands.

scholarly journals Rhetorical, Political, and Ecclesiastical Perspectives of Augustine’s and Julian of Eclanum’s Theological Response in the Pelagian Controversy

Scrinium ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-193
Author(s):  
Nozomu Yamada
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
The Political ◽  
Rhetorical Devices ◽  
Political Tactics ◽  
Pelagian Controversy ◽  
Julian Of Eclanum ◽  
Ultimate Purpose ◽  
Philosophical Frameworks

Abstract In Opus imperfectum, Augustine’s last controversy against Julian of Eclanum, we can recognize these two theologians’ rhetorical devices in which they tried to condemn each other as heretics. Particularly in the interpretations of both polemists on the issue of human sexual desire, Augustine and Julian fiercely confronted each other, making extensive use of a variety of rhetorical measures. In this article, referring to important recent research while at the same time focusing on crucial primary texts, I first would like to clarify these rhetorical arguments, particularly, the supremacy of Augustine in using such rhetorical devices. Next, the quite different philosophical frameworks of both polemists are clarified. In addition, the political and ecclesiastical perspectives of Augustine’s and Julian of Eclanum’s theological reasoning are investigated and the political tactics and ecclesiastical diplomacy of Augustine clarified. The ultimate purpose of this article is to explicate the mechanism and the true reasons for the victory of Augustine and the excommunication of Julian and other Pelagians.

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