Political science, political ideas and rhetoric

Finlayson, Alan

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“…Our fourth point concerns narrative.13 The challenge now, following on from the work of Finlayson (2004Finlayson ( , 2007 and Martin (2013), is to focus analysis on the construction of leadership persona, not only in terms of the 'character' of the leader, but also the connections between leadership narrative and other narratives, especially for a party leader of a social democratic type. The perpetual distinction made between 'policies' and 'personalities' is both a category mistake and a naivety, even for a party of the left with an elaborate doctrinal history.…”

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“…To recapitulate: leaders interpolate ideas, gathering them together (for example, socialism and populism), projecting them -through the performance of the political persona -into the public sphere (Finlayson 2002). Because the medium is the media, the projection is a refraction that informs and affects how they appear, what they say and what they do (Corner 2000).…”

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

Lahel

2013

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This article is a contribution to an emerging scholarship on the role of rhetoric, persona and celebrity, and the effects of performance on the political process. We analyse party leader Ed Miliband at the UK Labour Party Conference in Manchester in 2012. Our analysis identifies how, through performance of 'himself' and the beginnings of the deployment of an alternative party narrative centred on 'One Nation', Ed Miliband began to revise his 'received persona'. By using a range of rhetorical and other techniques, Miliband began to adapt the Labour narrative to the 'personalized political'. The article sets out the theoretical framework for the analysis and returns to the implications for the theory of leadership performance in its conclusion.

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

Lahel

2013

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“…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. How significant was the ethos of the speaker -i.e.…”

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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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“…Although the findings of such analysis can be used to support deductive research that may argue about the legitimacy of the Intervention, this is not the primary purpose. Finlayson (2004) argued that interpretive -that is, rhetorical and linguistic -approaches have not been widely adopted within political science. Similarly, they have not been adopted in legal scholarship; black-letter legal scholars could attempt to write off an analysis of such speech acts as simply a political analysis.…”

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Rhetoric, Aboriginal Australians and the Northern Territory Intervention: A Socio-legal Investigation into Pre-legislative Argumentation

Roffee

2016

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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Presented within this article is a systematic discourse analysis of the arguments used by the then Australian Prime Minister and also the Minister for Indigenous Affairs in explaining and justifying the extensive and contentious intervention by the federal government into remote Northern Territory Aboriginal communities. The methods used within this article extend the socio-legal toolbox, providing a contextually appropriate, interdisciplinary methodology that analyses the speech act's rhetorical properties. Although many academics use sound-bites of pre-legislative speech in order to support their claims, this analysis is concerned with investigating the contents of the speech acts in order to understand how the Prime Minister's and Minister for Indigenous Affairs' argumentations sought to achieve consensus to facilitate the enactment of legislation. Those seeking to understand legislative endeavours, policy makers and speech actors will find that paying structured attention to the rhetorical properties of speech acts yields opportunities to strengthen their insight. The analysis here indicates three features in the argumentation: the duality in the Prime Minister's and Minister's use of the Northern Territory Government's Little Children are Sacred report; the failure to sufficiently detail the linkages between the Intervention and the measures combatting child sexual abuse; and the omission of recognition of Aboriginal agency and consultation.

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Political science, political ideas and rhetoric

Cited by 97 publications

References 42 publications

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

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

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

Rhetoric, Aboriginal Australians and the Northern Territory Intervention: A Socio-legal Investigation into Pre-legislative Argumentation

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