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The analysis of political discourse, with particular reference to the Venezuelan political dialogue
English for Specific Purposes, 1992Abstract This paper reports partial results of a major project concerned with the analysis of interaction through written text, the aim of which is the study of the various manifestations of evaluation in discourse. Previous research on newspaper editorials has shown that evaluation plays a fundamental role in shaping discourse patterns (Bolivar ...
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The Particularities of Legitimacy: John Simmons on Political Obligation
Ratio Juris, 2013AbstractIn this paper, I examine the terms on which John Simmons rejects all arguments for a moral obligation to obey the law and so defends “philosophical anarchism.” Although I accept his rejection of several criteria on which others might and often do insist, I criticize his reliance on the conditions of “generality” and “particularity.” In doing so,
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Electoral Incentives and Political Particularism : A Text Analysis Approach
2023Conventional wisdom describes the electoral connection as a do ut des whereby politicians distribute public goods to constituencies in exchange for votes. Applying computational text-analytic methods to a newly collected data set on Italian proposed legislation, I investigate parliamentarians’ behavior as a case study of how this causal mechanism works.
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Particularism and the Politics of Nature
2009This thesis is an attempt to offer an account of the practical ethics of Bruno Latour's political ecology based on Jonathan Dancy's recent work on ethical particularism with the aim of demonstrating the possibility of their entering into a fruitful alliance.
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‘Napoleonic constitutionalism’ : legal universalism or political particularism?
2013This article has two aims: firstly, to shed light on the driving force of “Napoleonic constitutionalism” as a means of restructuring Europe politically; secondly, to evaluate the extent to which Napoleonic constitutionalism can actually be claimed to have paved the way for legal universalism, and to assess its political repercussions in the long term ...
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Kongo Political Culture: The Conceptual Challenge of the Particular
Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, 2002John M. Janzen, Wyatt MacGaffey
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Kongo Political Culture: The Conceptual Challenge of the Particular
African Studies Review, 2001Gerard Prunier, Wyatt MacGaffey
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