This book is one of two volumes that examines the role of political communication, media and language in transforming politics, governance and democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa.
This book is one of two volumes that examines the role of political communication, media and language in transforming politics, governance and democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa.
This book investigates the implementation of gender mainstreaming legislation and policies in South Africa, focusing on their impact on women's empowerment in terms of representation, participation, and influence in municipal government.
This book investigates the implementation of gender mainstreaming legislation and policies in South Africa, focusing on their impact on women's empowerment in terms of representation, participation, and influence in municipal government.
This book offers theoretical and empirical insights into analyzing, measuring, and assessing the political power of the Chinese state in shaping society.
This volume sheds light on the world of organizational politics, political leadership, and the pivotal roles played by employees and political leaders in managing diverse groups.
This book explores how unresolved questions of social justice shape the character of the political terrain and political actors, through the lens of social media.
A collection of essays that situates and furthers contemporary debates around the prospects of democracy in diverse societies within and beyond the West.
Ireland's accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973 provided great opportunities, as well as significant challenges to its relatively small civil service.
This book explores how unresolved questions of social justice shape the character of the political terrain and political actors, through the lens of social media.
Political humor has an extensive record in the United States, replete with examples of humorists and satirists lampooning political leaders, institutions, ideas and more.
Political humor has an extensive record in the United States, replete with examples of humorists and satirists lampooning political leaders, institutions, ideas and more.
The book examines alternatives proposed and implemented by governments, civil society organizations, social movements and companies in Latin America to democratize public communication and overcome its current problems, such as the dissemination of alternative facts and fake news, anti-scientific discourse, harassing, discriminatory and hate speech, anti-human rights and anti-democracy discourses, and the contempt for political correctness.
The book examines alternatives proposed and implemented by governments, civil society organizations, social movements and companies in Latin America to democratize public communication and overcome its current problems, such as the dissemination of alternative facts and fake news, anti-scientific discourse, harassing, discriminatory and hate speech, anti-human rights and anti-democracy discourses, and the contempt for political correctness.
Civic space worldwide is shrinking nowhere is this plainer than in PalestineIsrael Suppressing Dissent brings together leading experts of shrinking civic space and transnational repression concerning PalestineIsrael to show how failing to address the phenomenon has impacts in the United States, the Middle East and beyond.
This book explores how 21st-century media-based discourses on migrants, refugees, and displaced people both reinforce and reconfigure existing negative stereotypes about these groups as 'other.
This book explores how 21st-century media-based discourses on migrants, refugees, and displaced people both reinforce and reconfigure existing negative stereotypes about these groups as 'other.
This book examines the projection of soft and sharp powers through the Turkish civilizational populist TV series "e;Resurrection: Ertugrul"e; and its reception in Pakistan.
This book examines the projection of soft and sharp powers through the Turkish civilizational populist TV series "e;Resurrection: Ertugrul"e; and its reception in Pakistan.
This book is one of two volumes that examines the role of political communication, media and language in transforming politics, governance and democracy in sub-Saharan Africa.
This book is one of two volumes that examines the role of political communication, media and language in transforming politics, governance and democracy in sub-Saharan Africa.
This book examines the theory, history, and practice of parrhesia-the act of speaking truth to power, when doing so is risky for the rhetor-and argues for a networked rhetorical approach to parrhesia that has not been considered previously by any other theorist.
This book examines the theory, history, and practice of parrhesia-the act of speaking truth to power, when doing so is risky for the rhetor-and argues for a networked rhetorical approach to parrhesia that has not been considered previously by any other theorist.
This book examines retrospective pledge voting; the phenomenon of whether and under which conditions citizens are likely to withdraw their support for political parties that have failed to turn their pre-election pledges into tangible policies once they have joined government.
The book utilises Gramsci's concepts of hegemony, counter-hegemony, organic intellectuals, and integral state to interrogate how modes of engagement between the state and civil society have contributed to a polarised polity in Zimbabwe, and in turn how this has impacted democratisation processes.
This book examines public, political and media discourse in the context of failed states using Lebanon, a country torn by wars and political-financial corruption, as a contemporary case study.
