NB: This post was first published in another blog and imported into this one. Please forgive any formatting issues. This concept from Behavioral Economics is important in understanding why Trump won. Simply put, prospect theory posits that individuals are risk averse when facing favourable prospects but are more accepting of risks when faced with losses. In the case … Continue reading Trump Lessons Part 3: Voters & Prospect Theory
Month: October 2019
Trump Lessons Part 2: Ideology
NB: This post was first published in another blog and imported into this one. Please forgive any formatting issues. The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally. This was a great line from an article in The Atlantic and Trump’s billionaire backer Peter Thiel said much the … Continue reading Trump Lessons Part 2: Ideology
Trump Lessons Part 1: picking your battles
NB: This post was published in a previous blog and imported into this one. Please forgive any formatting issues. The problem from a political campaigning perspective with the type of handwringing articles we’ve seen about Trump’s sexism and racism is that they focus on the wrong thing. This happens in Sri Lankan politics too. In … Continue reading Trump Lessons Part 1: picking your battles
Strict fathers, Trump and Appachchi
NB: This post was published in a previous blog and imported into this one. please forgive any formatting issues. These were very intriguing articles quoting George Lakoff (one of the great thought leaders on political communication) about the influence on voters of moral frameworks and perceptions of parenting. He describes the two models as “strict … Continue reading Strict fathers, Trump and Appachchi
Roundup on politics, media and campaiging
NB: This post was published in a previous blog and imported into this one. please forgive any formatting issues. There have been a few articles that caught my eye lately, but these two stood out in the context of this blog. The always outstanding Matt Taibbi had an excellent piece on the current status of … Continue reading Roundup on politics, media and campaiging
Experts, framing & communication
NB: This post was published in a previous blog and imported into this one. Please forgive any formatting issues. “Not only were we facing the British establishment in the government, we also, in some ways, took on the world establishment because all these heads of government [including Obama] were coming out to say that Britain … Continue reading Experts, framing & communication
Unscaling political parties and disintermediation
Unscaling was not a phrase I was familiar with in a political context, though the basic principle is certainly well known: conventional business paradigms are being disrupted by technology. To unscale refers to the specific act of “dismantling all large-scale, vertically integrated, mass-market institutions”. I have been writing about the disintermediation effect that we are … Continue reading Unscaling political parties and disintermediation
Media disintermediation and priming in politics
NB: This post was published in a previous blog and imported into this one. Please forgive any formatting issues. Having posted earlier on the way agenda setting and priming have functioned in the US Presidential Primaries, I thought it useful to take a look at how social media affects this process, focusing on the impact of … Continue reading Media disintermediation and priming in politics
Agenda Setting in Trump’s Triumph – Politics, Policy & Media
A note about one of the many things that struck me while observing the Republican primaries. I thought it an interesting exercise to evaluate this using the agenda setting marketing theory. Agenda-setting theory describes the “ability [of the news media] to influence the salience of topics on the public agenda.” Using this, it is apparent … Continue reading Agenda Setting in Trump’s Triumph – Politics, Policy & Media
Authenticity and Framing
NB: This post was published in a previous blog and imported into this one. Please forgive any formatting issues. This post about the repackaging of Hilary Clinton (in a manner similar to that of the sitcom character Leslie Knope) struck a cord with me; particularly in the context of authenticity and framing. She was preening and … Continue reading Authenticity and Framing
Politics, Policy & Media 