Academic Articles & Research Papers

Hobbes and Kant: Materialism and Rhetoric

This article examines the subtle nuances of Hobbes’s and Kant’s perspectives on rhetoric and materialism, contextualising them within the broader framework of political philosophy. Despite both philosophers being critics of rhetoric, their ...

To Empower People: The Role of Mediating Structures in Public Policy

Two seemingly contradictory tendencies are evident in current thinking about public policy in America. First, there is a continuing desire for the services provided by the modern welfare state. Partisan rhetoric aside, few people seriously ...

Community in Public Policy: Fad or Foundation?

Both internationally and within Australia public policy is experiencing a rush back to the idea of community. After 15 years of discourse about the new public management and economic rationalism a much older discourse is slipping back into ...

Handbook of Public Policy Analysis

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES The Policy Sciences at the Cross-Roads Promoting the Policy Orientation: Lasswell in Context Public Policy, Social Science and the State: An Historical Perspective POLICY PROCESSES Theories of the Policy Cycle Agenda...

The Ubuntu Principle in the Internal and Foreign Policy of South Africa

This article discusses the peculiar features of South Africa’s foreign policy, which became the fifth member of BRICS in 2011. The decision for South Africa’s accession to BRICS was based on the principles of the country's foreign policy; f...

Communıcatıon Studıes and Semıotıc Methods Applıcatıons

This research consists of two parts.The first part examines mainstream communication studies as a discipline which emerged from other social sciences like, psychology, sociology, and anthropology with historical roots in Greek and Roman ora...

Transgender Communication Studies

Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories brings scholarship in transgender studies to the forefront of the communication discipline. Leland Spencer and Jamie Capuzza provide a broad foundation that documents th...

Get Set for Communication Studies

This volume assumes no prior knowledge of the subject. For students who have never studied Communication Studies before, it will give an idea of what to expect. For students already studying Media or Communication Studies at school or colle...

Political science, political ideas and rhetoric

The article reviews ‘ideational’ analysis and theory in political science. It argues that this is an important area of research limited by lack of a clear sense of what ideas in politics are and of how to analyse them as directly as possibl...

Political Science and the Enlightenment of Enthusiasm

I provide a narrative of the emergence of an expressly articulated “political science” in the Scottish Enlightenment. Political science was designed by Hume, Smith, and others to advance both a Newtonian method for the study of politics and...

Strategic decoupling through legitimacy: the sustainability-innovation gap in the food processing sector and its health implications

Abstract Background Environmental and public health impacts are critical in the food processing industry. To demonstrate responsiveness to stakeholder expectations, firms foreground sustainability reporting through frameworks such as Enviro...

Expectations and the Emergence of Nanotechnology

Although nanotechnology is often defined as operations on the 10 -9 meters, the lack of charisma in the scale-bound definitions has been fortified by remarkable dreams and alluring promises that spark excitement for nanotechnology. The stor...

Viral evolution: Influenza evolves - From rhetoric to reality?

Reframing History through Discourse: A French Discourse Analysis of Vox’s Political Language

Abstract This article investigates the epistemological convergence between French historiography and French Discourse Analysis (FDA), emphasizing their shared focus on language as a vehicle for historical meaning and ideological formation....

Neoliberalism and the Rhetorical Use of Creativity

The subjects discussed in the article are the curious use of the term creativity by neoliberalism, how this has had an effect on educational policies in recent years, and how this effect can be counteracted by suggesting an option in a crit...

Towards an Ethical Electronics? Ecologies of Congolese Conflict Minerals

This paper asks how coltan, casseterite, wolframite and gold ores mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo relate networked microelectronics to brutal warlords, and what legal and industrial actions have been enacted by activists, NGOs, po...

Scare-quoting climate: The rapid rise of climate denial in the Swedish far-right media ecosystem

The final years of the 2010s marked an upturn in coverage on climate change. In Sweden, legacy media wrote more on the issue than ever before, especially in connection to the drought and wildfires in the summer of 2018 and the Fridays for F...

The Role of Critical Discourse Analysis in Translation: A Case of the Political Speech

This study aims to provide insights into understanding the theoretical background of the application of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in the translation of political texts in the field of translation studies. The study also casts light ...

The Rhetoric of a Health Technology: The Microprocessor Patient Card

Literature discussing rhetoric is mainly concerned with rhetoric per se — its structure, and the categorization of arguments by kind. Rarely do rhetorical studies examine the actual effects on audiences, and auditors' reactions. On the othe...

A Century of Communication Studies

Introduction. A Brief History of the National Communication Association Pat J. Gehrke & William M. Keith *Discovering Communication: Five Turns toward Discipline and Association J. Michael Sproule *Paying Lip Service to in Disciplinary Nami...