Dissertation
RETHINKING PROPAGANDA: HOW AND WHY POLITICAL ACTORS INFLUENCE EXTERNAL AUDIENCES
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
01/2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000004385
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/123011
Abstract
Propaganda is a constant feature of political actors’ behaviors, and yet patterns in those behaviors remain poorly understood. Classifying these political actors based on both their capabilities for reaching external audiences and their internal characteristics, most notably their bureaucratic makeup and their approach to the pursuit of international credibility, yields a typology of propagandists. Different archetypes within that typology are expected to exhibit varying patterns of behavior when deploying propaganda within similar contexts, including times of war or peace and in locations hosting audiences that are culturally aligned or misaligned with the propagandist. I derive a series of testable hypotheses based on this interaction between propagandist type and contextual factors and then use six case studies to compare observed propaganda behaviors to predicted outcomes. The results of these case studies suggest this framework, with some minor revisions, may prove usable for predicting political actors’ propaganda behaviors.
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- Title
- RETHINKING PROPAGANDA
- Creators
- Adam Ethan Emerson
- Contributors
- Thomas J. Preston (Advisor)Martha L. Cottam (Committee Member)Travis N. Ridout (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, School of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 198
- Identifiers
- OCLC#: 1365390643; 99900883135901842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation