iv List of Tables and Figures v What is Morality? 2 Emotion, Moral Motives, and Political Triggers 6 Approach and Avoidance Moral Motives 8 Morality and Political Ideology 11 Framing Political Issues 13 Framing and Moral Motives 15 Method 17 Participants 17 Procedure, Design, Stimuli, and Measures 17 Results 23 Data Preparation 23 Data Analysis 23 Summary 26 Discussion 29 Limitations and Future...

Usenet is a decentralized discussion community predating blogs by decades. Just as there are a wide range of political blogs, many Usenet sub-communities focus on politics. However, we find these two communities are very different in terms of source content. In this work we compare linking patterns of the political Usenet with a well-known political blog and news aggregator, Memeorandum, with r...

Usenet is a decentralized discussion community predating blogs by decades. Just as there are a wide range of political blogs, many Usenet sub-communities focus on politics. However, we find these two communities are very different in terms of source content. In this work we compare linking patterns of the political Usenet with a well-known political blog and news aggregator, Memeorandum, with r...

the study of lexical bundles, among types of text analysis, is gaining importance over the others in the last century. the present study employed a frequency-based analysis approach to the use of lexical bundles. the discussion section of 60 political science articles, with corpora around 253,063 words were investigated in three aspects of structure, form, and function of lexical bundles. the p...

Introduction Literature Review Method Results Media Interaction Discussion Implications for Political Communication Conclusions Acknowledgments Footnotes References About the Authors

Political parties use marketing instruments as part of their electoral campaign activities. These are usually analysed and categorised using the 4P and marketing mix concept, a perspective anchored in the ‘managerial’ school of marketing theory. However, these concepts have come under considerable criticism. This article uses an alternative perspective, i.e. a functional analysis, to describe t...