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Rhetorical strategies of political parties and organized movements

Deliberative democracy and the Australian monarchy—republican debate

University of New South Wales, Sydney, P.Nugus{at}unsw.edu.au

Research on the Australian monarchy—republican debate has considered arguments for and against the republic, the 1999 referendum and interpretations of the republic. Little attention has been paid to the debate’s discursive construction. Therefore, this article analyzes the rhetorical strategies with which political parties and organized movements sought to persuade the public to adopt their position in the debate in the 1990s. The article discerns and analyzes various rhetorical strategies in terms of the patterns in their use among these elites. In contrast to the cognitive bias of much research in political communication, the article accounts for the embeddedness of these strategies in their public political, national-cultural and popular democratic contexts. It shows that the use of such strategies is a function of the socio-political context of actors’ statuses as parties or movements. The article recommends combining deliberative democracy with discourse analysis to comprehend the dynamics of public political language.

Key Words: deliberative democracy • monarchy • organized movements • political parties • republic • rhetoric

Journal of Sociology, Vol. 45, No. 3, 307-328 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1440783309335649


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