Wonks and War Rooms
Where political communication theory meets on the ground strategy. Host, Professor Elizabeth Dubois, picks a political communication theory, explains it to a practitioner, and then they have a chat about whether or not it makes sense at all out in the world of politics and communications. She chats with political staffers, journalists, comms experts, lobbyists, activists and other political actors. Elizabeth quizzes them on pol comm theory and they tell her how ridiculous (or super helpful) that theory actually is.
Wonks and War Rooms
Permanent Campaigns with Kate Harrison
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Elizabeth Dubois
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Season 1
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Episode 9
Kate Harrison (VP at Summa Strategies) and Elizabeth chat about the permanent campaign, and how political parties and politicians change their communication strategies over time. With so much information out there, politicians have to be communicating with potential voters even outside official election times.
Additional resources:
In a Policy Options piece, Esselment reviews the Canadian context: Canada’s embrace of the permanent campaign
Vasko and Trilling have a useful academic article on the topic: A permanent campaign? Tweeting differences among members of Congress between campaign and routine periods.
Check out www.polcommtech.ca for annotated transcripts of this episode in English and French.
