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Mugwumps and never trumps : the rhetoric of party bolting and party repair
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
of 1884, 1948, and 2016 provide a brief glimpse into the complexities of partisan identification and disidentification occurring outside the traditional framework of critical elections....
Narratives of the presidential nominating conventions : branding the parties and candidates
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
and party up for the coming campaign. This study investigates the way various speeches play a role in branding the parties and their nominee. By analyzing the prime time speeches for both the Republican and Democratic Parties from 1972-2016, this study found...