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Elite and Mass Political Behaviour

Elite and Mass Political Behaviour

This blog presents posts that tackle practical problems relating to political behaviour using knowledge from academic research. It showcases the best blog posts written by students on the honours-level Elite and Mass Political Behaviour course in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.

Tag: post-truth

How to Resist the Post-Truth Trend in Today’s Society

Author: Naoya Yamaguchi “…Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that.”   This iconic quote was said by Kellyanne Conway, adviser to President Trump, when she joined “Meet the Press” on January 22, 2017. Conway used the term “alternative facts” to defend then-White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s false claims about the crowd […]

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