Political Performance and Leadership Persona
The UK Labour Party Conference of 2012
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7294209 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Gaffney (0000-0002-4667-4241, School of International Relations), Amarjit Lahel (School of International Relations) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 481-505 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Government and Opposition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0017-257X • E-ISSN: 1477-7053 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/gov.2013.23 |
| OpenAlex | W2079550046 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article is a contribution to an emerging scholarship on the role of rhetoric, persona and celebrity, and the effects of performance on the political process. We analyse party leader Ed Miliband at the UK Labour Party Conference in Manchester in 2012. Our analysis identifies how, through performance of ‘himself’ and the beginnings of the deployment of an alternative party narrative centred on ‘One Nation’, Ed Miliband began to revise his ‘received persona’. By using a range of rhetorical and other techniques, Miliband began to adapt the Labour narrative to the ‘personalized political’. The article sets out the theoretical framework for the analysis and returns to the implications for the theory of leadership performance in its conclusion
Art · Humanities · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Persona · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Scholarship · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Law · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2017 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |