Political Performance and Leadership Persona: The UK Labour Party Conference of 2012

Lahel, Amarjit

doi:10.1017/gov.2013.23

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“…This populist strategy is equally evident in Miliband's () claim that One Nation social security ‘reflects the values of the British people’ (see also Miliband, ), where he constructs the public as an ‘imagined community’ that shares Labour's beliefs (see Gaffney and Lahel, , p. 484). While there is a long tradition of populism in British political speech, the party leaders of today must also demonstrate that they understand ‘ordinary people’.…”

Section: Ed Miliband and The ‘Personalised Political’mentioning

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Narrating One Nation: The Ideology and Rhetoric of the Miliband Labour Party

Atkins

2014

Politics

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Speaking at the 2012 Labour Party Conference, Ed Miliband set out his vision of ‘One Nation’. This article maps the core concepts of Labour's ideology and identifies the narratives used to argue for One Nation social security reform. It locates these narratives within Labour's traditions and demonstrates that they coalesce in the leadership persona of Miliband himself. Though an attempt to respond to a populist ‘rhetorical culture’, the article contends that this strategy has created a self‐enclosed ideology that cannot conceive of an audience beyond itself. Labour therefore needs to overcome this solipsism if it is to secure victory in 2015.

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Section: Ed Miliband and The ‘Personalised Political’mentioning

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Narrating One Nation: The Ideology and Rhetoric of the Miliband Labour Party

Atkins

2014

Politics

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“…As Richard Toye notes, there are few 'explicitly conceived rhetorical analyses' in the field (Toye, 2011, p. 177 (Gaffney and Lahel, 2013). More broadly, other analyses have drawn out the rhetorical construction of morality, party renewal (Atkins 2014), and/or leadership (Crines and Theakston, 2015;Lawrence, 2008).…”

Section: The Study Of Rhetoric In British Party Politicsmentioning

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The rhetoric of Alex Salmond and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum

McAnulla

Crines

2017

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This is the first article to examine the rhetoric of Alex Salmond using the Aristotelian modes of persuasion (ethos, pathos, logos) during the 2014 independence referendum. The article examines Salmond's persuasive style, his political discourses, and construction of a specific form of Scottishness between January and September 2014. The article argues that Salmond's rhetorical style was driven in large part by a concern to reassure voters about the consequences of independence (logos-centred), combined with a positive vision informed by both civic nationalism and anti-Toryism (pathos-centred), which he constructing around his own character and credibility (ethos-centred). We conclude that Salmond's rhetoric over the course of the referendum campaign can be understood as part of a wider political transformation in which the legitimacy of Westminster decisions over Scotland is subject to regular scrutiny and doubt.

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“…He argues that rhetorically based evaluations of political elite behaviour tended to be 'rather narrowly focused work from within the discipline of linguistics', such as the work of Charteris-Black (2005) (see also Beard, 1999;Chilton, 2004 andOlmstead, 2006). However, such an interpretation overlooks the growing body of academic literature on political speeches (Lawrence, 2008;) and the significance of political oratory to the construction of political personas and reputations (Gaffney, 1991;Gaffney and Lahel, 2013). There is also a significant growth within the political science literature about rhetorical political analysis, which concentrates on examining the arguments made in political speeches and the methods for justifying the positions that political elites advance (Finlayson, 2004(Finlayson, , 2007Finlayson and Martin, 2008; see also Crines and Hayton, 2014;Hayton and Crines, 2015. Rhetorical analyses enable political historians to re-examine speeches to ascertain how they were constructed and delivered.…”

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Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ speech: A rhetorical political analysis

2015

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This article exploits the developing political science literature on rhetorical political analysis (RPA) and applies it to one of the most controversial speeches of the post-war era in British politics. Alongside an analysis of the roots and impact of Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech the article deconstructs Powell's rhetoric and oratory. In doing so the article moves beyond the traditional modes of analysing the speech, which focus on the reproduction of 'new racisms' and which are prevalent within the sociological and social psychology academic literature. By using RPA the paper considers the speech through the use of the rhetorical techniques of persuasion i. appeals to ethos -i.e., the persona of the speaker; ii. pathos -i.e. the range of emotions evoked; iii. or logos -i.e. the evidence that supports the arguments underpinning the speech. This type of analysis showcases how and why Powell's speech made such an impact when just as inflammatory comments had been uttered by other Conservatives prior to 1968.

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Political Performance and Leadership Persona: The UK Labour Party Conference of 2012

Cited by 16 publications

References 30 publications

Narrating One Nation: The Ideology and Rhetoric of the Miliband Labour Party

Narrating One Nation: The Ideology and Rhetoric of the Miliband Labour Party

The rhetoric of Alex Salmond and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum

Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ speech: A rhetorical political analysis

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