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Eshu’s tricks: Fragments for a communicational analysis of voting
Les facéties de Lebga. Fragments pour une analyse communicationnelle du vote
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Abstract Voting is a sort of black hole in work on political communication in information and communication sciences. As for electoral studies in political science, they provide increasingly precise information about who electors are and the circumstances under which they decide how to vote, but they struggl... view more
Voting is a sort of black hole in work on political communication in information and communication sciences. As for electoral studies in political science, they provide increasingly precise information about who electors are and the circumstances under which they decide how to vote, but they struggle to enlighten what voters mean by their votes. This paper outlines a fresh approach to voting as a communicational process. In a context of crisis of representation, recent work in ICS encourages the use of “incommunication” to analyse the relationship that forms during political elections between governors and governed. A diversion by way of political anthropology will lead to mention of Eshu (Elegba, Legba), who in Africa forms a synthesis between communication that is inherent in all forms of power and the individual and collective expression of the guardians of power.... view less
Keywords
election; political communication; election research; voting behavior; voter; representation
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
voting, election, political
Document language
French
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 159-175
Journal
ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies, 11 (2018) 1
ISSN
1775-352X
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed