It’s a busy day for Bermuda’s media. Normally the PLP revile and ignore them. But now that the kettle of internal dissent is boiling, everyone is working the phones. As predicted, the Premier is brushing off the criticism as personal and not related to the controversies over his leadership. The loyalists and FoE’s are saying [...]
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Splinter
November 21st, 2008 · Comments Off · Accountability, Bermuda Politics, Reform
The Bermuda Sun today has an article about disaffected young members of the PLP and the party’s efforts to bring them into the fold. PLP chairman David Burt talks the right talk, but I think he’ll have difficulty balancing the desires of those splinter groups with the tight oligarchic command of Dr. Brown. And, in [...]
Group Identity
April 8th, 2008 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics
Politics links to an academic dissertation on group identity that uses the PLP’s electoral tactics as a case study: A look at a few examples of the rhetoric at the rallies and in the campaign generally makes it clear that voters were being asked to make an affirmation of their [group or racial] identity with [...]
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