Based on the available evidence, I conclude that both the supply and demand sides of radical politics have been relatively stable over time, which suggests that in order to understand public support for radical politics, scholars should instead focus on the increased resonance between pre-existing attitudes and discursive frames.
To address this problem, I bring together existing research on nationalism, populism and authoritarianism in contemporary democracies to precisely define these concepts and examine temporal patterns in their supply and demand, that is, politicians' discursive strategies and the corresponding public attitudes.
Third, then, this concept also indicates that the evidences of faith are always paradoxical and uncertain and that those who pursue knowledge of these contents must accept an attitude of philosophical relativism and discursive exchange: if faith results in dogmatism, it immediately undermines its claims to offer transcendent knowledge.
Q method is a research technique advocated by proponents of discursive democracy to assess the self described attitudes of participants in discourse around a particular topic.
Philippa Lewis's lively, discursive survey of domestic buildings is a story of attitudes as much as architecture.
Bessy's year-by-year account incorporates plenty of hard to find documents illuminating the "discursive" side of the prehistory of the cinema - the attitudes, fears and hopes of contemporaries.
In addition, while they render their taxonomy of invocations strategies as a system, a system network was not viewed as an appropriate means of illustrating a set of strategies or discursive elements that combine in many cases to invoke an attitude for the reader.
Anglo-Australian Attitudes by Michael Davie, a former Observer journalist, is a discursive set of essays on the history of the vexed relationship between Australians and what they are no longer allowed to think of as their mother country.
As a body of discursive theory, rhetoric has traditionally offered rules that are merely articulations of contemporary attitudes toward certain kinds of prose and has tended to be identified with orations in which the specific intent to persuade is most obvious.
It is still pop music, but it is more discursive, more sophisticated, more poetic, and as such, it no longer "works" to assist in attitude projection; it truly is contemplative music that is meant to be listened to as such.
