Research & Publications

On the surface it may look kind of eclectic…

… but as the Research Themes pages below show, my work generally overlaps with a broad interest in the application of contemporary political theory to study political communication, campaigning, and ideological struggles for power.

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Research Themes

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Rhetoric and Oratory

Devolved UK Politics

Applied Political Theory

Politics and Pro-Wrestling

Full Publication List

  • Allen, P. & Moon, D.S. (2023) “Huge fan of the drama”: Politics as an object of Fandom. Convergence. Online.

  • Moon, D.S. (2022) Kayfabe, Smartdom & Marking Out: Can Pro-Wrestling Help Us Understand Donald Trump? Political Studies Review. 20(1): 47-61. Online.

  • Moon, D.S. (2022) Work, Kayfabe and the Development of Proletarian Culture: Professional Wrestling as Potential Proletkult. Professional Wrestling Studies Journal. 3(1): 17-37. Online.

  • Bennett, S., Moon, D.S., Pearce, N. & Whiting, S. (2021) Labouring under a delusion? Scotland's national questions and the crisis of the Scottish Labour Party. Territory, Politics, Governance: Journal of the Regional Studies Association. 9(5): 656-674. Online.

  • Allen, P. & Moon, D.S. (2020) Predictions, pollification, and Pol Profs: the 'Corbyn Problem' beyond Corbyn. Political Quarterly. 91(1): 80-88. Online.

  • Moon, D.S. (2020) The role of cultural production in celebrity politics: Comparing the campaigns of Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura (1999) and Donald Trump (2016). Politics. 40(2): 139-153. Online.

  • Moon, D.S., Thomson, J. & Whiting, S. (2019) Lost in the Process? The impact of devolution on abortion law in the United Kingdom. British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 21(4): 728-745. Online.

  • Moon, D.S. (2017) Red Dragon FM: Carywn Jones’s ‘Welsh Labour Rhetoric’. In J. Atkins & J. Gaffney (eds.) Voices of the UK Left: Rhetoric, Ideology and the Performance of Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan: 123-146. Online.

  • Moon, D.S. & Evans, T. (2017) Welsh devolution and the problem of legislative competence. British Politics. 12(3): 335-360. Online.

  • Crines, A.S., Moon, D.S. & Lehrman, R. (eds.) (2016) Democratic Orators from JFK to Obama. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. Online.

  • Moon, D.S. (2016) Oratory and Rhetoric in Democratic Party Politics. In Crines, A.S., Moon, D.S. & Lehrman, R. (eds.) (2016) Democratic Orators from JFK to Obama. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan: 283-287. Online.

  • Moon, D.S. (2016) The Oratory of John Edwards. In Crines, A.S., Moon, D.S. & Lehrman, R. (eds.) (2016) Democratic Orators from JFK to Obama. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan: 171-192. Online.

  • Moon, D.S. (2016) Devolution. In Crines, A. & Hickson, K. (eds.) Harold Wilson: The Unprincipled Prime Minister? London: Biteback.

  • Moon, D.S. (2016) 'We’re Internationalists, not Nationalists’: the political ramifications of Welsh Labour’s internal power struggle over the ‘One Wales’ coalition in 2007. Contemporary British History. 30(2): 281-302. Online.

  • Moon, D.S. (2015) The Oratory of Barbara Castle. In Crines, A. & Hayton, R. (eds.) Labour Orators from Bevan to Miliband. Manchester: Manchester University Press: 62-75. Online.

  • Moon, D.S. (2015) The Oratory of Neil Kinnock. In Crines, A. & Hayton, R. (eds.) Labour Orators from Bevan to Miliband. Manchester: Manchester University Press: 125-140.

  • Moon, D.S. (2015) Review of Comradely Greetings by Nadya Tolokonnikova & Slavoj Žižek. ID: International Dialogue, 5. Online.

  • Moon, D.S. (2014) Rhetoric and devolution: Time and Space in Welsh Labour Rhetoric on Devolution. In Atkins, J., Finlayson, A. Martin, J. & Turnbull, N. (eds.) Rhetoric in British Politics and Society. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan: 87-100. Online.

  • Moon, D.S. & Ø. Bratberg (2014) Why the Welsh said yes, but the Northerners no: the role of political parties in consolidating territorial government. Contemporary British History. 28(3): 318-340. Online.

  • Moon, D.S. (2012) ‘Tissue on the Bones’: Towards the Development of a Post-structuralist Institutionalism. Politics. 33(2): 112-123. Online.

  • Moon, D.S. (2013) Autonomy and alienated subjectivity: A re-reading of Castoriadis, through Žižek. Subjectivities. 6(4): 424-444. Online.

  • Moon, D.S. (2013) A Democratic Socialist case for the Union. In Hattersley R. & Hickson, K. (eds.) The Socialist Way: Social democracy in contemporary Britain. London: I.B. Taurus.

  • Moon, D.S. (2013) Rhetoric and policy learning: On Rhodri Morgan's 'Clear Red Water' and 'Made in Wales' health policies. Public Policy and Administration. 28(3): 306-323. Online.

  • Moon, D.S. (2013) Welsh Labour in Power: ‘One Wales’ vs. ‘One Nation’? Renewal. 21(1): 77-86. Online.

  • Flinders, M. & Moon, D.S. (2011) The problem of letting go: The ‘Big Society’, accountable governance and ‘the curse of the decentralising minister’. Local Economy. 26(8): 652-662. Online.

  • Moon, D.S. & Ø. Bratberg (2010) Conceptualising the multi-level party: Two complimentary approaches. Politics. 30(1): 52-60. Online.

  • Moon, D.S. (2009) Review of Clear Red Water: Welsh Devolution and Socialist Politics. Renewal. 17(3): 89-91. Online.