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The discourses and practices of political deception
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from campaigns to cable to the courts
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Spicer
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Robert N.
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1978
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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This project is an examination of the political animal and its ways of communicating, specifically through and about lying and deception. The goal of this project is to develop a discourse analysis of deception in politics. So the key research question is, how do political discourses about deception function? This means looking at how specific political actors create discursive constructions about what is not true in American political life and what political actors know about that which is not true. The project is not concerned with judging the deceptions themselves but rather how political deception is discussed. This dissertation is broken into three sections. Section I contains an introductory chapter, a literature review and a discussion of the research questions and method. Section II contains two chapters: a typology of political deception and a discussion of laws addressing the problem. It also analyzes the judicial discourse surrounding political deception. Section III is the analysis of discourses looking at three discursive sites in three chapters. The first examines the political discourse surrounding the tea party as AstroTurf. The second is an analysis of the discourse of truth and falsity surrounding fact checking organizations and the role of the news media in general. Finally, there is a proposal for a campaign ethics council.
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Communication, Information and Library Studies
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Political campaigns--United States
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Deception--Political aspects--United States
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Political ethics--United States
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by Robert N. Spicer
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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