Persuasive Way of Communicational Propaganda

Talking Your Way into Agreement: Belief Merge by Persuasive Communication

As usually considered in Social Choice theory, the problem of preference aggregation is to find a natural and fair “merge” operation (subject to various naturalness or fairness conditions), for aggregating the agents’ preferences into a single group preference. Depending on the stringency of the required fairness conditions, one can obtain either an Impossibility theorem (e.g Arrows theorem [2]...

Propaganda in Soviet Russia

Two years ago the writer found plenty of evidence. Red flags, censored newspapers, directed excursions, indoctrinated schools, motivated plays, didactic pictures, and continuous radio messages preach communism. Appeals to the need for security and class loyalty, dogmatic assertion of Marxian philosophy, the example of leaders, and calls to participation are used as incentives to action. The res...

Propaganda and credulity

Article history: Received 13 April 2016 Available online 28 December 2016 JEL classification: D83

Semantics and Ethics of Propaganda

This article explores shifting definitions of propaganda, because how we define the slippery enterprise determines whether we perceive propaganda to be ethical or unethical. I also consider the social psychology and semantics of propaganda, because our ethics are shaped by and reflect our belief systems, values, and language behaviors. Finally, in the article I redefine propaganda in a way that...

The Theory of Political Propaganda