In the article there is defined concept of comic as a rhetorical and semantic technique in public discourse, which exerts psychological behavioral influences. There are highlighted main features comic, particular: available for human perception; it causes laughter among representatives certain social group, demonstrates difference between different groups (motives comedy not global, they will b...

This paper argues that limits on campaign contributions may well be Pareto improving even under the most optimistic assumptions concerning the role of campaign advertising and the rationality of voters. The argument assumes that candidates use campaign contributions to convey truthful information to voters about their qualifications for office and that voters update their beliefs rationally on ...

Some argue that there is an organic connection between being religious and being politically conservative. We evaluate an alternative thesis that the relation between religiosity and political conservatism largely results from engagement with political discourse that indicates that these characteristics go together. In a combined sample of national survey respondents from 1996 to 2008, religios...

In 2009, a unique Portuguese electoral cycle comprised european, local, and national elections. During the three month non-stop campaign period, more than a hundred experienced bloggers, supporters of the three main political parties, created three non party-sponsored blogs. These blogs were the focal point of the political blogosphere during that period and ceased their activities at the end o...

This conceptual paper focuses on political marketing „strategies‟ in the context of major British political parties. There is consideration of the underlying drivers that are encouraging the adoption of the political marketing approach. It is debated whether political parties actually have political marketing „strategies‟. The difference between political marketing and political campaign strate...

This research examines the thesis that religiosity has conflicting influences on Americans' attitudes about the use of torture on terrorism suspects: an organic influence favoring opposition to torture and a discursively driven influence favoring support of torture. In each of two national samples, religiosity had both a direct effect toward opposition to torture and an indirect effect-via cons...

The article is dedicated to the study of stratagem Chinese media discourse as a special way structuring discursive position that contributes its dominance in communication. Because analysis corpus texts political discourse, it established manifests itself coordinates macro-communication, which has an agonal character, and focused on achieving dominant by validating with help public social addre...