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Paget, Dan, Beardsworth, Nicole Anne and Lynch, Gabrielle (2023) Campaign rallies and political meaning-making. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 61 (3). pp. 235-254. doi:10.1080/14662043.2023.2232163 ISSN 1466-2043.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2023.2232163
Abstract
Prior research determines whether politicians at rallies make programmatic, clientelist or personalist appeals. We argue that this reductive approach obscures the variety of meaning-making at rallies. We offer a vision of rallies as complex communicative events, at which multiple actors co- and counter-produce messages in numerous ways. Nonetheless, we argue that there are patterns in meaning-making at rallies. Rallies are produced in accordance with a genre which guides what components are included in them and how they are interpreted. We argue that rallies produced in that genre fashion and foreground three constructs above others: candidates, collectivities and contests. They fashion them, among other things, through representative claims. Altogether, we show that rallies are significant sites of political communication in Africa and worldwide.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | |||||||||||||||||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | |||||||||||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Campaign speeches , Political campaigns , Communication in politics , Representative government and representation, Political culture , Elections | |||||||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Commonwealth & Comparative Politics | |||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | |||||||||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 1466-2043 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Official Date: | 21 August 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Volume: | 61 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Number: | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 235-254 | |||||||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/14662043.2023.2232163 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 September 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 11 September 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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