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Vol 16(1): Replication Data for Importance of Public Meaning for Political Persuasion
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Vol 16(1): Replication Data for Importance of Public Meaning for Political Persuasion
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Situating vulnerability: politics, law, and institutions
No full textThe article fosters a critical exchange among interdisciplinary scholars on how vulnerability is currently theorized, politicized, and juridified across different contexts—from African humanitarian programs for refugees to human rights jurisprudence and feminist activism. My contribution to the CE examines how vulnerability becomes juridified in international and high courts. Rather than functioning as a bureaucratic or purely legalistic tool, it emerges as an unwritten and uncodified fundamental value, invoked by both judges and rights claimants. As a superlegal principle, the protection of vulnerable individuals often takes precedence over formal legislation, illustrating how courts increasingly assume the role of defining the community’s core values and setting boundaries for legislators. The juridification of vulnerability thus underscores the growing importance of the “politics of judicial rights protection” as a complement to traditional representative politics
New competencies in democratic communication? Blogs, agenda setting and political participation
No full textPolitical communication, Blogs, Democracy, Discourse, Agenda setting,
The Importance of Public Meaning for Political Persuasion
No full textThere have been many retrospective analyses written about the marriage-equality movement since the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling that made marriages between people of the same sex legal in all 50 states. Most attribute that triumph to a stunningly swift turnaround in public comfort with and approval of same-sex relationships. However, public opinion data indicates that this narrative is inaccurate. In 2015, 51% of General Social Survey respondents declared that they found sexual relationships between people of the same sex to be “wrong” at least “some of the time.” Nevertheless, at the same time, 56% of respondents affirmed that people of the same sex ought to have the legal right to marry. This dissonance suggests that the most common narrative about the success of the movement misses something crucial about how political persuasion happened in this case, as well as the way that political persuasion happens in general. In this article, I show that the massive shift in support for same-sex marriage was likely not the result of large majorities changing their underlying attitudes regarding gay sexual relationships, but was instead the result of activists inserting new criteria for evaluating same-sex marriage into popular political discourse by consistently using resonant arguments. These arguments reframed the political stakes, changed the public meaning of the marriage debate, and altered the decisional context in which people determine their policy preferences.</jats:p
Ingenious Citizenship: Recrafting Democracy for Social Change. By Charles T. Lee. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. 298p. $25.95
No full textCHAPTER XII. Black Feminist Visions and the Politics of Healing in the Movement for Black Lives
No full textResponse to Charles T. Lee’s review of <i>The Politics of Common Sense: How Movements Use Public Discourse to Change Politics and Win Acceptance</i>
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