scholarly journals The USA Labor Unions Against the Legislative Restraint on Their Participation in Election Campaigns (1947-1948)

2014 ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Irina Koryakova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labor Unions ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
The Usa

Rhetorical moves in political discourse: closing statements by presidential candidates in US primary election debates

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Schubert
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Sample Analysis ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Primary Election ◽  
Presidential Primary ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
Political Persuasion

Abstract Presidential primary debates in the USA are commonly concluded by brief closing statements, in which the competitors outline the central messages of their election campaigns. These statements constitute a subgenre characterized by a set of recurring rhetorical moves, which are defined as functional units geared towards the respective communicative objective, in this case political persuasion. Located at the interface of rhetorical move analysis and political discourse studies, this paper demonstrates that moves and embedded steps in closing statements fulfill the persuasive function of legitimizing the respective candidate as the most preferable presidential successor. The study is based on the transcripts of 98 closing statements, which were extracted from eight Democratic and eleven Republican primary debates held between August 2015 and April 2016. Typical moves, such as projecting the speaker’s future political agenda or diagnosing the current situation in America, are presented with the help of illustrative examples, frequencies of occurrence, and a sample analysis of a complete closing statement.

Aristotelian rhetoric and Facebook success in Israel’s 2013 election campaign

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tal Samuel-Azran ◽  
Moran Yarchi ◽  
Gadi Wolfsfeld
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Party System ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Rhetorical Strategy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Campaign Messages ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Competitive Nature ◽  
Aristotelian Rhetoric

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the mapping of the social media discourse involving politicians and their followers during election campaigns, the authors examined Israeli politicians’ Aristotelian rhetoric on Facebook and its reception during the 2013 elections campaign. Design/methodology/approach – The authors examined the Aristotelian rhetorical strategies used by Israeli politicians on their Facebook walls during the 2013 elections, and their popularity with social media users. Findings – Ethos was the most prevalent rhetorical strategy used. On the reception front, pathos-based appeals attracted the most likes. Finally, the results point to some discrepancy between politicians’ campaign messages and the rhetoric that actually gains social media users’ attention. Research limitations/implications – The findings indicate that Israel’s multi-party political system encourages emphasis on candidates’ credibility (ethos) in contrast to the prevalence of emotion (pathos) in typical election campaigns in two-party systems like the USA. One possible explanation is the competitive nature of elections in a multi-party system where candidates need to emphasise their character and distinct leadership abilities. Practical implications – Politicians and campaign managers are advised to attend to the potential discrepancy between politicians’ output and social media users’ preferences, and to the effectiveness of logos-based appeals. Originality/value – The study highlights the possible effect of the party system on politicians’ online rhetoric in social media election campaigns.

The Political Attitudes and Preferences of Union Members: The Case of the Detroit Auto Workers

1959 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 437-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold L. Sheppard ◽  
Nicholas A. Masters
Keyword(s):  
Labor Unions ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Auto Workers ◽  
Union Leaders ◽  
Legal Controls ◽  
Complex Question ◽  
American Labor

The emergence of American labor unions to positions of actual or potential power as organized forces in election campaigns has stirred a great deal of controversy over the limits and propriety of union political activity. A decade and more after the Taft-Hartley Act provisions on that subject, argument continues as vigorously as ever about the need for, and if a need, then the nature and extent of, legal controls over the power of union leaders to enlist and commit their membership to electioneering goals. Underlying many of these debates is the complex question of union membership solidarity in political affairs. For if, to some, solidarity suggests dangers, it also indicates difficulties in the way of making controls effective. Yet we have only begun to explore the solidarity of rank-and-file attitudes toward union political activity.

scholarly journals Network Analysis of the 2016 Presidential Campaign Tweets

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry Zinoviev
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Complex Network ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Complex Network Analysis ◽  
Electoral Defeat ◽  
The Usa

We applied complex network analysis to ~27,000 tweets posted by the 2016 presidential election's principal participants in the USA. We identified the stages of the election campaigns and the recurring topics addressed by the candidates. Finally, we revealed the leader-follower relationships between the candidates. We conclude that Secretary Hillary Clinton's Twitter performance was subordinate to that of Donald Trump, which may have been one factor that led to her electoral defeat.

scholarly journals Functional-Stylistic Analysis of Pre –Election Campaign Discourse

2018 ◽  
pp. 16-20
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Political Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Usa ◽  
To Come

The paper examines expressive means in D. Trump’s and H. Clinton’s pre-election discourse, which is considered in syntactic level, the field of the pre-election campaign 2016. Pre-election discourse is a topical direction of modern linguistics as in the period of holding of election campaigns the activity of political figures who use multiple linguistic means aimed at making electors’ to come to a necessary decision increases considerably. The analysis is conducted on official websites of both politicians, opened for the elections held in 2016 in the USA. It focuses on the expressive means in the texts of politicians in the first, second and third debates. The study is based on the theory of critical discourse analysis (Van Dijk, 2009), political discourse analysis and the theory of expressive analysis. The structural analysis shows the most wide-spread expressive means functioned in the texts of both politicians. А content analysis is viewed as expressive means (ellipse, reduplication, parceling) of the pre-election discourse to compare the number of expressive means used in both politicians’ discourse. The research gives a description and analysis of the expressive means in pre-election discourse.

scholarly journals Hate Speech – What Reduces the Phenomenon in Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 170-180
Author(s):  
Kristina Nenova
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Way

Hate speech can be used as an instrument preferred to exert political influence upon voters during election campaigns. This article provides two examples to support this assumption – the first one is related to a Kirk and Martin’s study on the way main presidential candidates in the USA ran their campaigns in 2016, while the other assumption is related to the current debate in Bulgaria on the National Child Strategy 2019-2030. The present article  focuses upon possibilities to reduce the phenomenon’s influence as well as upon some of the challenges researchers and policy makers face in their attempts to limit it.

An examination of labor unions and firm’s tax ethical behavior in the USA

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-120
Author(s):  
Hong Weng Lei ◽  
Chansog (Francis) Kim ◽  
Raymond M. K. Wong
Keyword(s):  
Labor Unions ◽  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
The Usa

“Interests” and Elections

2020 ◽  
pp. 14-57
Author(s):  
Emily J. Charnock
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Labor Unions ◽  
Campaign Finance ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Special Interests ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Organizational Features ◽  
Congressional Investigations ◽  
Over Time

This empirical chapter draws on a series of congressional investigations into election campaigns and lobbying conducted between 1912 and 1957 (plus additional data on the early 1960s) to identify interest groups and related organizations—including early PACs—that participated in elections during this period. The major groups so identified—primarily business organizations, labor unions, and ideological groups—form the spine of the narrative throughout the book. This chapter highlights changes in their major organizational features and electoral practices over time. Furthermore, it explores the controversies surrounding both political parties and “special interests” in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly concerning the influx of money into election campaigns, which prompted these congressional investigations in the first place. It also offers an overview of campaign finance legislation and reforms that Congress passed in response.

scholarly journals Rassismus, Immigration und Arbeiterbewegungen in den Vereinigten Staaten

2003 ◽  
Vol 33 (130) ◽  
pp. 97-118
Author(s):  
Boy Lüthje ◽  
Christoph Scherrer
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Labor Unions ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Work Place ◽  
The Political ◽  
Labor Organizing ◽  
Racial Exclusion ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Post War

The article looks at the new organizing experiences of immigrant and minority workers in the USA, It discusses some central conceptions of current debates on race, ethnic identity, and multiculturalism and their meaning for labor organizing, It retraces the structural dimensions of racial and work-place domination under the labor regime established in the 1930s and 1940s, including a more detailed discussion of the 'political economy' of racial exclusion practiced by post-war labor unions, It intends to show that overcoming racial and ethnic divisions will remain a fundamental political yardstick against which the real changes in the labor movement will have to be measured - a lesson not only of importance for the USA but for most European countries as well.

Dental faculty and labor unions: the perils of passivity

1977 ◽  
Vol 41 (11) ◽  
pp. 660-665
Author(s):  
JH Oaks ◽  
DM Fox ◽  
JJ Valter
Keyword(s):  
Labor Unions
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